The other was the wall separating Aerosmith from Run-DMC in the music video for the latter’s 1986 cover of the former’s “Walk This Way.” When Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler busted ...

This is the oral history of Run-DMC’s cover of “Walk This Way”. It’s 15 December 1974, and Perry, Aerosmith’s 24-year-old lead guitarist, is messing with a riff before a gig in Honolulu.

However, Tim Sommer, a musician, songwriter, and journalist who roomed with Rubin in college at NYU, recalled a conversation where Rubin felt an Aerosmith-Run-DMC collaboration was too far-fetched.

“No, that’s Aerosmith’s song ... That summer, the culturally ascendant Run-D.M.C. – Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell (who passed away ...

But as producer Rick Rubin says in an interview with Rick Beato, the creation of Run-DMC and Aerosmith’s 1986 hit Walk This ...

Run-DMC has officially run its course — at least ... Mary," and their 1986 collaboration with Aerosmith, "Walk This Way." The concert, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, also ...

Run-DMC, a trio from Hollis ... It was then that legendary producer Rick Rubin suggested they recreate Aerosmith's "Walk This Way." At first, they met the idea with hesitance and thought ...

Standing at hip-hop's centre during its mid-1980s zenith, Def Jam founder Rick Rubin proved instrumental in pushing rap's acceptance into rock audiences.

worked the turntables in Run-DMC as it helped hip-hop break into the pop music mainstream in the 1980s with such hits as "It’s Tricky" and a fresh take on Aerosmith’s "Walk This Way." ...

Over the years, Aerosmith, which formed in 1970, has collected four Grammys. The band broke boundaries intersecting rock and hip-hop with their epic collaboration with Run-DMC for “Walk This Way.” ...

Mizell was a founding member of Run-DMC, which was formed in 1983, and whose hits include "It’s Tricky," "King of Rock" and a cover of Aerosmith’s "Walk this Way." Jay formed Run-DMC with ...