The National Anthem—sure, it’s a stirring and poetic encapsulation of the best elements of the American spirit, but have you ever tried to sing that thing?  It’s not exactly easy.  Which is exactly what Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and American Idol found out on Sunday, when he turned in an atonal and frankly embarrassing version at AFC Championship game.  Check out the video after the jump.

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Look at the face in the picture above, gang—that’s the picture of sobriety, according Steven Tyler, the owner of said bruised and battered mug.   The 63 year old American Idol host and Aerosmith frontman apparently took a tumble in the shower in Asuncion, Paraguay on Tuesday—but Tyler swears that it has nothing to do with his long battle with substance abuse, and that he has not fallen off the wagon.

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I think of the Aerosmith story in two parts, everything that happened before the release of their hit album Permanent Vacation and everything after.

It’s the everything after part that’s shaky, including some mediocre music and a lead singer playing judge on a hack talent show. But in the days before “Dude Looks Like A Lady” reignited the band’s popularity in 1987, Aerosmith released a series of albums between 1973 and 1987 that contain some of the finest music in rock n’ roll history.

And now, Apple has signed a mega deal with Columbia Records to add never before released digital versions of these classic Aerosmith albums to iTunes, which are available right now.

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Hot on the heels of the news that Madonna will be releasing a wholly and totally unnecessary album next year,  Rolling Stone reported today that Aerosmith, too, are hard at work on a wholly and totally unnecessary album (it will be their fourteenth studio disc).  So, once again, Steven Tyler will have an excuse to dress like your wacky grandma from Arizona and do his best Mick Jagger impression on tour.

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As part of his recent quest to regain some relevance, Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler will be releasing a memoir this May, according to Show Biz Spy. The book, entitled Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?, will likely deal with all the usual trials and tribulations of rock star life–sex, drugs, and reluctantly fading into pop culture obscurity. Tyler said that the process of writing it was “cathartic.”

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It’s been a big year for Steven Tyler–maybe even bigger than the year that Armageddon reminded viewers that Aerosmith used to write good ol’fashioned blues rock (just turn the movie off before the end credits and you can forget that the group turned into a boy band for a few years). By taking a gig as a judge on “American Idol,” the rocker renewed interest in his band, resulting in a welcome increase in sales.

Now, Spin tells us they’ll all be heading back to the studio to record a new album. Might those dollar signs have had something to do with this?

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As the lead singer for a band like Aersomith, we doubt that Steven Tyler has ever had a lot of difficulty getting female attention through the years. And while he may be officially be an “aging rocker” by this point, if a recent event on “American Idol” is any indication, he’s still got what it takes to charm the ladies.

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The competition has barely begun, but there’s already one musical act getting a major boost in exposure thanks to “American Idol“: Aerosmith.

With the infamous Simon Cowell and the insignificant Kara Dioguardi off the show, two new judges were recruited to fill their spots: Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latter has seen his new role bring some pleasant benefits along with it, as sales of Aerosmith’s various greatest hits collections have risen 250%.

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After all of the Steven Tyler hoopla earlier this year that had many Aerosmith fans wondering if the band would ever be the same, the last thing we need now that Aerosmith has its house in order is for lead guitarist Joe Perry to go get himself rear-ended by a car when he’s cruising on his motorcycle.

So that happened. Perry was, indeed, rear-ended by a car, and he has since been treated for minor injuries at Morton Hospital and Medical Center in Taunton, Massachusetts, according to the Boston Globe.

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