AEROSMITH – Author MARTIN POPOFF To Publish Aerosmith ‘72-’82: The Columbia Years, Later This Month
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“So I’ve finally delivered an Aerosmith book,” begins Canadian author Martin Popoff. “It’s the one people have asked for the most from me, that has not yet been fulfilled, until now.”
“Aerosmith ’72-’82: The Columbia Years is a deep-dive, track-by-track and everything around it of all the albums up to Rock In A Hard Place, with an extensive epilogue to bring us up to date.
It’s my usual format, one album per chapter, with talk about album covers, production, performances, ear candy, lyrics, using a bunch of my own interviews along the way.
It’s 240 pages, 6” x 9” format, there are 108 color pictures and it’s a blue foil-stamped cloth hardcover with a dust jacket. Click here to purchase.”
Available on September 28, 2026 via Schiffer, this remarkable book can also be ordered via Amazon.
Dive into the glory and the chaos of Aerosmith’s first seven albums — an era of ambition, anthems, and near destruction that forged one of rock’s greatest stories.
By 1972, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, and Joey Kramer had forged a lineup built for legend — and in 1973, their debut album on Columbia Records lit the fuse with the timeless ballad “Dream On”.
What followed was a blistering run: Get Your Wings sharpened their sound, Toys In The Attic and Rocks launched them into the stratosphere, and songs like “Sweet Emotion”, “Walk This Way”, and “Back In The Saddle” became the soundtrack of a generation, personified by the apocryphal “blue-jean army” of middle America.
But success came at a price. The late ’70s brought tension, excess, and unraveling bonds. By the time Night In The Ruts (1979) and Rock In A Hard Place (1982) arrived, the cracks had widened, and Aerosmith’s future hung in the balance.
This is the electrifying story of the creation of these legendary recordings and the band that clawed its way from high schools and Boston clubs to arenas and stadiums, in the end running on fumes and mental and physical collapse—and even death—threatening at every whirlwind tour stop.
At approximately 7900 (with over 7000 appearing in his books), Martin has unofficially written more record reviews than anybody in the history of music writing across all genres. Additionally, Martin has penned 75 books on hard rock, heavy metal, classic rock and record collecting. He was Editor in Chief of the now retired Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Canada’s foremost heavy metal publication in print for 14 years, and has also contributed to Revolver, Guitar World, Goldmine, Record Collector, BraveWords.com, Lollipop.com and HardRadio.com. Martin has been a regular contractor to Banger Films, having worked on the award-winning documentary Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, the eleven-episode Metal Evolution, and the ten-episode Rock Icons, both for VH1 Classic. Martin currently resides in Toronto.
(Source: www.bravewords.com)
