By Brooke Ivey Johnson
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Yungblud and Aerosmith are collaborating on a new single (Picture: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for MTV)
Aerosmith are set to make a surprise return with their first original material in over a decade – teaming up with British rocker Yungblud for a collaborative single, My Only Angel.
77-year-old Steven Tyler stepped back from the spotlight in recent years after damaging his vocal cords during the band’s Peace Out farewell tour in 2023.
The injury forced Aerosmith to bring their decades-spanning live career to an abrupt halt, leaving fans uncertain whether they would hear new music from the Boston legends again.
But after Tyler made a rare appearance at February’s Jam for Janie Grammys Viewing Party, speculation began to swirl that he was healthier than previously thought.
That whisper of possibility grew louder when he and guitarist Joe Perry appeared alongside Yungblud at the 2025 MTV VMAs earlier this month, where they closed out a raucous tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne.
Following the show, Aerosmith and Yungblud teased fans with a cryptic social media clip in which Tyler grinned as he embraced the younger rocker, saying: ‘We got a secret and nobody knows it.’
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Now, the secret’s out: The cross-generational single My Only Angel is on the way.
Though no release date has yet been confirmed, a snippet shared online has already sent chills through the fandom.
Over a bittersweet riff, Tyler and Yungblud trade vocals: ‘Will you cry / if I called you my angel / gotta leave, gotta leave, gotta leave you one more time.’
The single will be Aerosmith’s first original track since their 2012 album Music From Another Dimension!.
It’s not yet clear whether My Only Angel is a standalone release or part of a larger project from either Aerosmith or Yungblud.
Yungblud and Steven Tyler previously teased the collaboration after the VMAs (Picture: Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTV)
It’s unclear if the song will be part of a larger project (Picture: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for MTV)
Their MTV VMAs performance was an emotional highlight of the ceremony: Yungblud led with renditions of Ozzy classics Crazy Train and Changes, before Perry and Tyler joined to close with Mama, I’m Coming Home.
Aerosmith fans are well aware that any performance from Tyler could well be his last, given the health issues that have affected his singing voice.
He ‘sustained vocal cord damage that led to subsequent bleeding’ shortly into the group’s 2023 Peace Out Farewell tour.
At the time, he shared that he had received strict orders from his doctors, who urged him not to sing for the next month.
The group then shared a statement nearly a year later, revealing that his recovery was ‘not possible’, meaning that they would retire from touring altogether.
For Aerosmith fans, the announcement of this new song offers something once thought unlikely: brand-new music from one of the most iconic rock bands of the 80s.
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