Permanent Vacation  by Aerosmith

Eleven new compositions and a cover of a Beatles song - "I'm Down," the B-side to the "Help!" single - marked the return and the start of the second career of American rockers Aerosmith in 1987, and this time the career was 100% international thanks to MTV. "Permanent Vacation" was one of the albums that certainly engaged the wider rock community at that time. A year earlier, the return of Aerosmith - in part - had been preceded by the re-release of "Walk This Way" together with Run DMC.

Aerosmith and "Permanent Vacation," with songs like "Rag Doll," "Angel," or "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)," literally stormed the charts as all three of these singles entered the Top-20 of the Billboard and in many other countries. Besides these successes, "Permanent Vacation" was one of the best examples of an album balancing between hard rock and glam metal. Among those who deserve credit is the Canadian producer Bruce Fairbairn, who managed to bring Aerosmith into the rock sound of the eighties.

"Permanent Vacation" reached No.11 on the Billboard, went five times platinum in the U.S. selling 5,000,000 copies, while in the United Kingdom it achieved No.37. "Permanent Vacation" became the reason a new generation of rock listeners engaged once again with Aerosmith.