Songoftheday 3/8/19 - I kept the right ones out and let the wrong ones in, had an angel of mercy to see me through all my sins...
from the album Get A Grip (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #24 (five weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 16
Today's song of the day comes from the blues-rock legends from Boston, Aerosmith, whose 1993 album Get A Grip had already spun off two top-20 pop hits with "Livin' On The Edge" and "Cryin'". In the fall of that year the frenetic album track "Fever" (eventually covered by Garth Brooks) was promoted to rock radio, and climbed to #5 on the Mainstream Rock chart in Billboard magazine. The third proper single to emerge from the record would be another "power-ballad". "Amazing", written by lead singer Steven Tyler with song doctor Richie Supa, also sported a music video featuring Clueless' Alicia Silverstone in a foreboding tale of virtual reality...
"Amazing" became the third top-40 pop hit from Get a Grip in January of 1994. The song was a bigger success on rock radio, spending seven weeks at #3 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart. Internationally, the single climbed to #4 in Canada and #5 in Norway, and was a top-40 hit in the Netherlands (#12), Switzerland (#16), Sweden (#24), Austria (#27), Germany (#28), and Belgium (#33). In the UK, the song stalled out down at #57.
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Here's the band performing "Amazing" in concert in the Netherlands in 1994...
and again for the first time in a dozen years in 2011 in Peru...
Lastly, Steven has said that he wrote "Amazing" about his drug addiction with the mid-career collapse of the band, and here he is singing it at a rehab center...
Up tomorrow: A band carries on and has a #1 rock hit, just as its writer ends his life.
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