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|nota genere2 = <ref name="allmusic.com" /><ref name="scaruffi.com">[http://www.scaruffi.com/vol3/aerosmit.html scaruffi.com "The History of Rock Music" - Aerosmith]</ref><ref name="Running with the Devil">Robert Walser. ''[http://books.google.it/books?id=YKPDF0I5p3kC&pg=PA8&dq=heavy+metal+origins&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=aerosmith&f=false Running with the Devil: power, gender, and madness in heavy metal music]''. Wesleyan, 1993, ISBN 0-8195-6260-2. p. 10</ref>
|nota genere3 = <ref name="allmusic.com"/><ref name="Youth culture">Jonathon S. Epstein. ''[http://books.google.it/books?id=Ddlt04RY9x4C&pg=PA299&dq=aerosmith+pop+metal&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=uuRdS4v2MJ7ozATz0qSTAw&cd=16#v=onepage&q=aerosmith%20pop%20metal&f=false Youth culture: identity in a postmodern world]''. Wiley-Blackwell, 1998, ISBN 1-55786-851-4. p. 299</ref><ref>[http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_metal-hair-art.html Greatest hair/pop metal bands - Aerosmith]</ref>
|nota genere4 = <ref>{{cita libro|autore=Steve Hall, Ron Manus|url=http://books.google.it/books?id=7qiR070hsaYC&pg=PA8&dq=%22Blues+metal%22|titolo=TAB Licks: Heavy Metal|editore=Alfred Publishing|anno=2006|isbn=978-0-7390-2646-5|pagina=6}}</ref>
|nota genere5 = <ref name="Aerosmith_glam1">{{Cita news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/10/magazine/heavy-metal-weighty-words.html?pagewanted=all|titolo=HEAVY METAL, WEIGHTY WORDS - NYTimes.com|cognome=Pareles|nome=Jon|editore=''[[The New York Times]]''|accesso=16 maggio 2010 |data=10 luglio 1988}}</ref><ref name="Aerosmith_glam2">{{Cita news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4219579.ece|urlarchivio=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615113649/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4219579.ece|dataarchivio=15 giugno 2011|titolo=Down time: Aerosmith|cognome=Cairns|nome=Dan|editore=''[[The Sunday Times]]''|accesso=30 maggio 2010|città=London|data=29 giugno 2008|urlmorto=sì}}</ref><ref name="Aerosmith_glam3">{{Cita libro|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lw9Ccboc5OcC&pg=PA392&dq=Aerosmith+glam+metal#v=onepage&q=Aerosmith%20glam%20metal&f=false|titolo=Sonic Cool: the Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll|autore=Harrington, Joe S.|p=392|anno=2002|editore=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-0-634-02861-8}}</ref>
