When the Classic Rock team prepared to talk about the song for our latest podcast, we realised that we had to consider some things that could change the way we – and you – think about the song.Ī new documentary on Sky about sexual abuse in the music industry, Look Away, focuses a large part of its running time on the story of Julia Holcomb and Steven Tyler. When Holcomb was 16, she went to an Aerosmith concert with the intention of hooking up with Tyler. She was young, from a broken home, and looking for excitement. Her older friends dressed her up sexily, and backstage she and Steven Tyler just clicked.
They were exactly what each other were looking for. They were together for three years from 1973. (Holcomb has since claimed that Tyler lied to her parents, saying that he needed guardianship to enrol her in a school.) To get around it, Tyler asked Holcomb’s parents if they would sign her over to him as legal guardian.Īge of consent laws vary from state to state in the USA, which meant that Tyler could get into real trouble with a 16 year old girlfriend.
Steven Tyler and Julia Holcomb backstage before Aerosmith's concert at Madison Square Garden, New York, 10th May 1976 (Image credit: Fin Costello/Getty)Įither way, Tyler became Holcomb’s lover, guardian, and eventually her fiancee. Holcomb says Seasons Of Wither was written for her. We offer a choice of licensing terms depending on your use of Unreal Engine.
