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"Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" is a song by American rock band Aerosmith. It was released as the lead single from the band's ninth studio album Permanent Vacation in 1987. The song was written by lead singer Steven Tyler, lead guitarist Joe Perry and songwriter Desmond Child.
Steven Victor Tallarico (born March 26, 1948), known professionally as Steven Tyler, is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the keyboards, harmonica and percussion.
The lyrics, which tell the story of a high school boy losing his virginity, are sung quite fast by Tyler, with heavy emphasis being placed on the rhyming lyrics (e.g., "so I took a big chance at the high school dance"). Between the elaborately detailed verses, the chorus primarily consists of a repetition of "Walk this way, talk this way".
“Dude (Looks Like a Lady),” Aerosmith ... Child’s “autobiographical” lyrics had been inspired by a time in the ‘70s when he was a struggling New York University student and part-time ...
During the "Dude Looks Like A Lady" sequence of Wayne's World 2, he is seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Bass; it was occasionally used on the 1993–94 Get a Grip Tour. He has also used a 1960s Höfner Violin Bass to record some of the Just Push Play album, but most notably it was used to record the songs What It Takes and Jaded.
John Charles Barrett (born October 28, 1953), known professionally as Desmond Child, is an American songwriter and producer.He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008.
According to Perry "It started off sounding really county-western. We didn't want to write a song like 'Angel,' and for Desmond, that's where his heart and soul is. He's into big, dramatic ballads. But we wanted to do something different." Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford stated that "It was a keyboard song to begin with. Somewhere along the ...
Rubin said, "I like this one, and I like that one, but you know, I really like 'Hangman Jury.' It's interesting, the spectrum of people who pick up on that." [7] Perry felt that with the song's "acoustic bottleneck guitar work and spooky country-blues overtones" it is "a perfect example of Aerosmith seeing 'how gritty we can make it'". [7]