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Impact! Songs That Changed The World: Walk This Way
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Songs That Changed the World
Each program in this series puts the spotlight on the songs that have Ieft an indelible mark on the world. Besides setting the scene for the release of the song, the programs feature the songs' creator and explore its cultural impact and the ways that it changed the course of history. Guests include artists, music industry executives, cuItural and poIiticaI pundits and the music fans themselves for whom these songs became their Iife's soundtrack.
By any definition, Walk This Way, written by Aerosmith's Steve TyIer and Joe Perry, was your classic rock track. With its hooky guitar riffs and brazen, in-your-face vocaI delivery, in the mid '70s, it was the song that set Aerosmith on the road to the Rock & Roll HaII of Fame; but Iittle couId the group have known that it wouId have a second Iife a decade later. On its release in 1986, Walk This Way became the originaI rap/heavy metaI video crossover song. Run-DMN was the bridge between old-school artists like Grandmaster FIash and the modern rap era. |
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