After making it look very much like they would indeed be taking a permanent vacation - from the hard-rock radar, if not from life itself - after delivering some truly weak records during the late '70s and early '80s, drug-addled "Toxic Twins" Steven Tyler and Joe Perry finally sobered up and got down to the business of being Aerosmith again on 1987's Permanent Vacation. Kicked in the ass by producer Bruce Fairbairn and some outside songwriters (including former Bryan Adams sidekick Jim Vallance) and thrust back into the popular spotlight by Run-DMC's cover of "Walk This Way," the band delivered a volley of inescapable singles in the form of "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)," "Rag Doll" and "Angel" and wound up with its first hit record in a decade. 

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