Reps For AEROSMITH And Rolling Stone Call Break-Up Report An 'Error'
June 4, 2007, 17 years ago
The following report is courtesy of Mark Shanahan from Boston.com:
For the second time in less than a week, AEROSMITH's reps are denying a report that the Boston band is no more.
This morning (June 4th), RollingStone.com posted a picture of singer Steven Tyler at an airport in India with the following caption: "Steven Tyler touches down at the Bangalore airport only to announce that Aerosmith has broken up." But it's just not true, according to Mitch Schneider, the band's publicist, who called the cutline "an error."
Indeed, Rolling Stone publicist Beth Jacobson insisted that an intern wrote the caption and was just joking, apparently playing off an item in the New York Post last week. In that item, the Post reported that Tyler's daughter Liv had told friends that her father is unhappy with his bandmates and is planning to quit the band.
The erroneous RollingStone.com caption was quickly taken down from the site after Boston Globe reporters began calling and asking for further details.
"Really, it was an intern who didn't do a good job," said Jacobson. "It's got a breaking news feeling, but it's inaccurate."If Tyler's in turmoil, he's not talking. Before the band's two-hour show in Bangalore Saturday, the 59-year-old frontman told the Times of India "Aerosmith has never sounded better."
