Aerosmith, “Dream On”
Steven Tyler wrote Dream On when he was in his teens, which isn’t something you would expect from a song that starts with “Every time I look in the mirror, all these lines in my face get clearer.” The song peaked at 59 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and, three years later, stormed into the list again at number six.
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Steven didn’t really think Dream On would turn out to be a song: “It was just this little thing I was playing, and I never dreamed it would end up as a real song or anything … It’s about dreaming until your dreams come true.” Good thing he never gave up.