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When it comes to the origins of heavy metal, there\u2019s typically only one name in the ring: Ozzy. Everyone else came later \u2013 at best a prot\u00e9g\u00e9, at worst a mere imitation. It\u2019s clear that Steven Tyler<\/a> has never been entirely comfortable about his place within that line. <\/p>\n That\u2019s obviously not to be misconstrued as him being in any way disrespectful to the legacy of the likes of Osbourne. Recent events in which Tyler has indeed gone to extreme lengths to honour the life and times<\/a> of the \u2018Prince of Darkness\u2019 prove only too well that he is indebted to all that devilish power. But in terms of his own music, and with Aerosmith, it\u2019s evident that the shoe of heavy metal doesn\u2019t fit quite so well, not least because he never wanted to wear it.\u00a0<\/p>\n This was something that Tyler went to pains to make sure he expressed, not least in the late 1980s when the band were attempting to reinvent themselves. But equally, there was no denying that over the course of the previous decade, when Aerosmith were on the ascension, they very much made themselves at home in the company of the fellow bands who ruled the scene at the time. <\/p>\n That just so happened to constitute the likes of Bon Jovi, Guns N\u2019 Roses, and, of course, Black Sabbath \u2013 none of whom Tyler seemingly liked being compared to. Yet in 1989, one interviewer was bold enough to ask the frontman what he made of this, and what kind of term he would define the scene by. <\/p>\n \u201cYou mean heavy metal?\u201d he scoffed. \u201cI don\u2019t even recognise what we do in the bands you just mentioned.\u201d Evidently, this ruffled a few feathers \u2013 Aerosmith, the band who supposedly threw caution to the wind, simply cosying in with the crowd? It wasn\u2019t an accusation he took lightly.\u00a0<\/p>\n