The Foo Fighters, Yola and Sammy Hagar were among artists who paid tribute to Aerosmith at the annual pre-Grammy MusiCares Person of the Year Gala.
, the classic rockers who were honored Friday at the annual MusiCares Person of the Year Gala. Over the decades, they’ve survived addiction, cancer and a falloff of chart action, and somehow bounced back mostly intact.
While the MusiCares honor came amid a week of trauma at the Recording Academy — after its chief executive and president, Deborah Dugan, wasafter just five months — the night raised $6 million for the popular charity, which provides music industry workers with support during financial and medical crises, including for substance abuse.
Melissa Etheridge and Nuno Bettencourt perform during the MusiCares Person of the Year Gala honoring Aerosmith. The lineup of rock, pop and R&B acts that included John Legend, LeAnn Rimes, the Jonas Brothers and Kesha unfolded at the Los Angeles Convention Center beneath dozens of decorative electric guitars hanging from the ceiling like a chandelier of polished wood and steel strings.
Yola and Gary Clark Jr. perform during the tribute to Aerosmith at the MusiCares Person of the Year Gala. If the first half of the night was largely focused on hits from the band’s late-'80s/early-'90s comeback, other performers attacked the hard rock songs at the foundation of Aerosmith’s career.
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