Planet Rock to celebrate Aerosmith all month in Dude Looks Like September

We'll be bringing you loads of Aerosmith content

Aerosmith - Dude Looks Like September

Author: Scott ColothanPublished 1st Sep 2021

Planet Rock is celebrating Aerosmith’s legendary 50-year career over the next 30 days in Dude Looks Like September.

We’ve kicked off our month-long festivities today (1st September) by launching an online poll calling on YOU, our esteemed Planet Rock listeners, to vote for your favourite song from Aerosmith’s distinguished back catalogue.

A completely open vote, you can cherry-pick your favourite Aerosmith song from lesser-known deep cuts to chart-denting anthems RIGHT HERE.

Throughout Dude Looks Like September, Planet Rock will be airing more Aerosmith music, and we’ll be playing three of their classic albums their glorious entirety on Planet Rock Plays It in Full.

Aerosmith with Joey Kramer

The fourth Planet Rock Plays It in Full of Dude Looks Like September will feature the Top 10 countdown of the greatest Aerosmith song ever as voted for by you.

Elsewhere, there will be archive interviews with Aerosmith, and we’ll hearing from other rock stars as they share stories about Aerosmith and pick their favourite tunes.

Artists set to feature include Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, Joe Bonamassa, The Darkness' Justin Hawkins, Guns N' Roses' Slash, Alter Bridge's Myles Kennedy and The Wildhearts' Ginger Wildheart.

With more activity to be announced in the coming days and weeks, join us throughout the month as we celebrate half-a-century of Aerosmith in Dude Looks Like September.

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The real names of famous rock stars including Joe Perry and Steven Tyler:

Cozy Powell’s real name: Colin Trevor Flooks

Alex Lifeson’s real name: Alexandar Živojinović

'Lifeson' is a semi-literal English translation of the Yugoslavian surname Živojinović, which means 'son of life'

Ginger Baker's real name: Peter Edward Baker

John 5’s real name: John William Lowery

Yngwie Malmsteen’s real name: Lars Johann Yngwie Lannerback

Rudy Sarzo’s real name: Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont

Eric Carr's real name: Paul Charles Caravello

Vinnie Vincent’s real name: Vincent John Cusano

Tina Turner’s real name: Anna Mae Bullock

King Diamond’s real name: Kim Bendix Petersen

Joey Tempest's real name: Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson

Michael Monroe’s real name: Matti Antero Kristian Fagerholm

Mikkey Dee’s real name: Micael Kiriakos Delaoglou

Jonathan Cain’s real name: Jonathan Leonard Friga

Nikki Sixx's real name: Frank Ferrano

Steven Adler’s real name: Michael Coletti

Axl Rose's real name: William Bruce Rose

Bon Scott's real name: Ronald Belford Scott

Fish’s real name: Derek William Dick

Eddie Vedder's real name: Edward Louis Severson III

Peter Criss’ real name: George Peter John Criscuola

Freddie Mercury's real name: Farrokh Bulsara

Flea's real name: Michael Peter Balzary

Perry Farrell's real name: Perry Bernstein

Geddy Lee’s real name: Gary Lee Weinrib

Mick Mars' real name: Robert Deal

Tré Cool's real name: Frank Edwin Wright III

Courtney Love's real name: Courtney Michelle Harrison

Pat Smear's real name: Georg Albert Ruthenberg

Gene Simmons' real name: Chaim Klein Witz

Spike’s real name: Jonathan Gray

Iggy Pop's real name: James Newell Osterberg, JR.

Alice Cooper's real name: Vincent Damon Furnier

Slash's real name: Saul Hudson

Mike Dirnt's real name: Michael Ryan Pritchard

Ronnie James Dio's real name: Ronald James Padavona

Brody Dalle's real name: Bree Joanna Alice Robinson

Skin's real name: Deborah Anne Dyer

Nicky Wire's real name: Nicholas Jones

Amy Lee's real name: Amy Lynn Hartzler

Bill Wyman's real name: William Perks

Izzy Stradlin's real name: Jeffrey Isbell

Paul Stanley's real name: Stanley Eisen

Vince Neil's real name: Vincent Neil Wharton

Duff McKagan's real name: Michael McKagan

Jack Black’s real name: Thomas Jacob Black

Lemmy's real name: Ian Fraser Kilmister

John Paul Jones' real name: John Baldwin

Joan Jett's real name: Joan Larkin

Eric Clapton's real name: Eric Patrick Clapp

Siouxsie Sioux's real name: Susan Janet Ballion

Rachel Bolan’s real name: James Richard Southworth

David Bowie's real name: David Robert Hayward Stenton Jones

Little Richard's real name: Richard Wayne Penniman

Sid Vicious' real name: John Simon Ritchie

Ace Frehley's real name: Paul Daniel Frehley

Lou Reed's real name: Louis Firbank

Joe Strummer's real name: John Graham Mellor

Marc Bolan's real name: Mark Feld

The Edge's real name: David Howell Evans

Meat Loaf's real name: Marvin Lee Aday

Steven Tyler's real name: Steven Victor Tallarico

Ozzy Osbourne's real name: John Michael Osbourne

Jon Bon Jovi's real name: John Francis Bongiovi

Joey Belladonna’s real name: Joseph Bellardini

Jack White's real name: John Anthony Gillis

Bono's real name: Paul David Hewson

Sting's real name: Gordon Sumner

Billy Idol’s real name: William Michael Albert Broad

Geezer Butler’s real name: Terence Butler

Pat Benatar’s real name: Patricia Mae Giraldo

Bo Diddley’s real name: Ellas McDaniel

Muddy Waters’ real name: McKinley Morganfield

Stevie Nicks’ real name: Stephanie Lynn Nicks

Doro’s real name: Dorothee Pesch

Sebastian Bach’s real name: Sebastian Philip Bierk

Joe Perry’s real name: Joseph Pereira

Jimi Hendrix’s real name: James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix)

Zakk Wylde’s real name: Jeffrey Phillip Wielandt

Maynard James Keenan’s real name: James Herbert Keenan

Blaze Bayley’s real name: Bayley Alexander Cooke

Biff Byford's real name: Peter Rodney Byford

M. Shadows' real name: Matthew Charles Sanders

Syd Barrett's real name: Roger Keith Barrett

Chris Jericho's real name: Christopher Keith Irvine

Ginger Wildheart's real name: David Leslie Walls

Paul Di'Anno's real name: Paul Andrews

Phil X’s real name: Theofilos Xenidis

Peter Green’s real name: Peter Allen Greenbaum

Nicko McBrain’s real name: Michael Henry McBrain

Noddy Holder’s real name: Neville John Holder

Steel Panther’s real names

Michael Starr: Ralph Michael Saenz, Satchel: Russell John Parrish, Stix Zadinia: Darren Leader, Spyder: Joe Lester.