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Aerosmith Flies, After a Long Takeoff

Wayne Robins, Newsday, 2 May 1976

IN JANUARY, 1973, Columbia Records released the first album by Aerosmith, a Boston-based hard rock band. Six months later, that album, Aerosmith, had sold a meager 16,000 copies — 15,000 of them in the Boston area.

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