Does the name Steven Victor Tallarico ring a bell with you? No? What about the name Steven Tyler?

Steven Tallarico – better known as the Steven Tyler of Aerosmith fame – was born in Yonkers, New York, on March 26, 1948. Years later, in the late sixties, in Sunapee, New Hampshire, he and four other musicians – Joe Perry on guitar, Tom Hamilton on bass, Ray Tobano also on guitar (later to be replaced by Brad Whitford),Tyler as frontman, and Joey Kramer on drums – decided to move to Boston. The group lived together and eventually became the band that we know and love today as Aerosmith.

Tyler’s new book is called “Does the Noise in my Head Bother You?” Tyler  does not seem like the type of person who would write a memoir, but one might be glad that he did. With the help of David Dalton, Tyler tells the story of how Aerosmith came to be, through all the heartbreak and drug use, through the jealous bandmates and exes, even through the band’s breakup and the band getting together again.

Now at age 67, Tyler is still as entertaining as he was when one imagines him in his youth. Although it does not seem likely that the once drug-addicted, Mick Jagger-impersonating frontman of Aerosmith would end up writing a memoir, it is questionale why he did not do it sooner.