Born Stephen Victor Tallarico on March 26, 1948 in Yonkers, New York, the artist the world would come to know as Steven Tyler was the son of a classical musician and teacher.  He was exposed to a wide variety of music at a young age, and took a liking to blues and the infant genre of rock and roll.  By the mid 1960s, he had performed with a number of bands, and was proficient both as a singer and as a drummer.

In 1969, Tyler met guitarist Joe Perry, and together with bassist Tom Hamilton founded a new band they called Aerosmith.  Their first five albums brought the band considerable success, as gave the world longstanding favorites like "Dream On" and "Walk This Way".  With this success, unfortunately, came excess, and Tyler found himself addicted to both stimulants and heroin.  By the end of the decade, the band collapsed under its own success, and Perry and fellow guitarist Brad Whitford left the band.

Throughout the early 1980s Aerosmith struggled, their troubles multiplied by Tyler's worsening addiction - during a number of concerts he collapsed onstage in the middle of a set.  Perry and Whitford returned in 1984, but it was clear the band needed a change, and they were able to convince Tyler to enter rehab in 1986.  Upon his successful completion of the program the other four members followed suit, and to this day do not drink or use drugs, and do their best to keep a clean crew.

In the decades since the band's return to success and health, Tyler has become something of a pop icon, starring in commercials and becoming a media figure outside of the band.  In addition to the band's studio albums, he has worked on a number of collaborations and side projects over the years.