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Aerosmith
Fact! Large-lipped Aerosmith lead singer Stephen Tyler has long described himself as 'the number one fan' of the blended family sitcom The Brady Bunch. It was this fascination with Mike, Carol and their combined sextet of children that inspired him to write the smash hit single Dude Looks Like A Brady. Tyler hoped the song would become a staple of all future Brady telemovies and street performances. But guitarist Joe Perry's drug-addled attempts to collaborate on the song (and his endless insistence on rehashing 'Bobby-Peter Decision') dampened much of Tyler's enthusiasm. Drummer Joey Kramer's further adamance that the eponymous 'dude' should be Brady housekeeper Alice was the final straw. Tyler abandoned the song, leaving the rest of the band to 'f**k with it as they l*ked' and declaring collaboration to be 'totally unf*cking Bradyesque anyway'.
The song's final lyrical form (along with the band's renewed interest in smoking crack cocaine) were eventually credited to Kramer's subsequent realisation that Alice was technically 'not a Brady at all'. Another influence in the name change may have been an inexplicable legal injunction by Robbie 'Cousin Oliver' Rist.
Footnote: An eerily similar situation arose with the lyrics of Tyler's proposed single Jannie's Got A Gun over a decade later. However, on this occasion, when the other band members suggested the song should focus more on child rape and murderous vengeance and less on middle child syndrome and jealousy of Marcia, Tyler adopted their ideas and lyrical adjustments enthusiastically. He later proudly told Rolling Stone magazine that "Aerosmith had made a pact to confront the social issues the Bradys usually glossed over". They lived up to this pact with their second single from the Pump album, Love In An Elevator, their scathing diatribe against the growing decline in lift-sex.
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