Aerosmith to retire next year

After rocking along for 46 years, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler told radio personality Howard Stern that the band will retire after year number 47. The band will go on a 2017 farewell tour before hanging up their guitars.

“I love this band, I really do, and I want to squash every thought that anybody might have about this,” 68-year-old Tyler said. “We're doing a farewell tour, but only because it's time. We've never done that.”

Stern added that bands like KISS go on multiple 'farewel'” tours, and Tyler jokingly entertained the idea that this might not be the end. When asked how long this tour will last, Tyler simply said, “Forever!”

Aerosmith have survived drug abuse, the rise of hip-hop, the boy-band era, and a Skittles commercial, so the fact that they've survived this long is an achievement on its own.