10 Perfect Songs That Had To Wait Years To Become Hits

For a man who makes his living off of screaming his head off every single night, Steven Tyler's upbringing was a lot more musically sophisticated than you'd think. From his earliest memories with music, Steven was known to watch while his day played classical piano, and thought his true calling was going to be in drums before being drawn to the front of the stage. Those sonatas never really leave your memory once you hear them though, and a few lonely nights drove Dream On out of Steven.

When summer was over, most of the kids that Tyler would be hanging out with would either be going back to school or leaving their summer houses entirely, leaving the cold September months in New Hampshire with absolutely nothing to do. Sitting at his parent's piano, Tyler wrote what he felt, coming up with Dream On that night and keeping it in his back pocket for when he had just the right band to make it work. While Aerosmith definitely gave him some kickass tunes, putting it on the first album didn't give the song any traction whatsoever, sinking without a trace on the first time around.

Once songs like Walk This Way became hits and Toys in the Attic charted on the album charts, that's when the band started to get crafty, convincing their label to re-release Dream On as a promotional single, making it all the way to #6 years after the fact. We had gotten used to some softer material coming out of rock bands at this point, but the minute that the song hit the charts, the art of the power ballad was born.