I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.

It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.

Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.