“It’s okay,” he replies flatly when asked to share his thoughts on the track 19 years on from its release. So presumably I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing is close to his heart? The drummer had been lifted from the punishing depths of a nervous breakdown to the summit of the US Billboard chart. That’s a pretty weighty tome, but this entry is particularly special for Kramer. In doing so, another chapter was added to the big book of Aerosmith comebacks. Its success went hand in hand with the film’s stellar box office performance, helping to bring a younger generation of fans to a band who at that point had already been going for almost 30 years. Regardless of who wrote the song, the history books show that I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing was a US number one hit, and still the only one of Aerosmith’s career. It would have been nice because all of the rest of us have ideas about songs.” But because of how the politics worked in the band at the time, those guys worked with the songwriters and came up with the songs. “If I had, I could have come up with some songs as well. “I couldn’t answer that question because I never worked with any of the songwriters that Steven and Joe worked with,” Kramer answers. But was working with outside songwriters a process that the band happily embraced from the get-go? Desmond Child in particular had worked well with the band since their mid-80s comeback, on songs including Dude (Looks Like A Lady) and Angel. Renowned hitmaker Warren was by no means the first gun for hire to write for Aerosmith, of course. As soon as we began playing it as a band, then it instantly became an Aerosmith song.” It was just a question of learning the song and playing it as a band. When we finally did make it our own, that’s when it became what it is.
It was difficult to imagine what kind of touch Aerosmith could put on it and make it our own. When I first heard it, it was just a demo with piano and singing. “I kind of knew it was a hit, but I didn’t really like the song,” he admits. The ballad I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing, written by Diane Warren, was chosen as the track to be reworked and recorded for the film. Aerosmith were the perfect choice, not least because the film co-starred Steven Tyler’s daughter, Liv. The scientifically baffling end-of-the-world summer blockbuster film Armageddon, starring Bruce Willis, needed a soundtrack single recorded by an A-list band. But then a Hollywood-sized opportunity landed in their lap. It had now been eight years since their last top ten single, What It Takes, from the album Pump.
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They ’d come mighty close, with Angel, Janie’s Got A Gun and Love In An Elevator all having made the US top five, but by the summer of 1998, a number one hit was seemingly slipping further away from their grasp.ĭespite the Nine Lives album selling by the boatload, none of the singles from it had managed to crack the Top 20. Although they had a catalogue packed with career-defining classics, they were yet to score a number one single in the US.
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