{"id":29214,"date":"2024-04-08T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-8-1975-aerosmith-released-breakthrough-album-toys-in-the-attic\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:02:16","slug":"on-this-day-april-8-1975-aerosmith-released-breakthrough-album-toys-in-the-attic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-8-1975-aerosmith-released-breakthrough-album-toys-in-the-attic\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, April 8, 1975: Aerosmith released breakthrough album &#8216;Toys in the Attic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-08\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, April 8, 1975\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Aerosmith<\/strong> released their breakthrough album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Toys in the Attic<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which featured future Aerosmith classics \u201cWalk This Way,&#8221; \u201cSweet Emotion\u201d and the album\u2019s title track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album was the band\u2019s third studio release, and it peaked at #11 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Album chart, their highest charting album at that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Toys in the Attic<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0went on\u00a0to be certified nine-times Platinum by the RIAA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWalk this Way\u201d was the second single from the album; it peaked at #10 on the chart in 1977 but saw renewed popularity when it was covered by <strong>Run-DMC<\/strong> for their 1986 album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Raising Hell<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. Aerosmith\u2019s appearance on the cover helped the song hit #4 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot 100, becoming the first hip-hop single to reach the top five.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Both versions of the song have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, April 8, 1975\u2026 Aerosmith released their breakthrough album, Toys in the Attic, which featured future Aerosmith classics \u201cWalk This Way,&#8221; \u201cSweet Emotion\u201d and the album\u2019s title track. The album was the band\u2019s third studio release, and it peaked at #11 on the Billboard Album chart, their highest<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-8-1975-aerosmith-released-breakthrough-album-toys-in-the-attic\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}