AEROSMITH Singer Steven Tyler's Dad Passes
September 13, 2011, 13 years ago
According to Nashuatelegraph.com, Victor Tallarico, a lifelong musician and father of AEROSMITH singer Steven Tyler, died this weekend at the age of 95 at the Hunt Community.
Tallarico passed away Saturday at the same retirement community where his wife of 63 years, Susan Ray Tallarico, died in 2008 at the age of 84. Victor Tallarico was a noted pianist and at 93 was still performing at the Hunt at social hour.
Victor Tallarico was father to Lynda Tallarico, a retired teacher who lives in southern Vermont; and Stephen Victor Tallarico, who became a rock and roll legend as Steven Tyler, the flamboyant front man for Aerosmith. Tyler’s daughter, Liv Tyler, starred in a trio of Aerosmith music videos and a number of major films.
In 2010, The Telegraph featured Victor Tallarico, for whom music was always a central focus.
He said there was a time that he and his son were not close because of Tyler’s rock and roll lifestyle, but that changed.
Tallarico said he considered his son a “genius,” and said his favorite Aeorsmith song was the 1970 classic 'Dream On'.
“(He’s) number one in the rock field. There’s none like him. There will never be,” Victor Tallarico said.
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