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Aerosmith has announced the entire band – including frontman Steven Tyler – will participate in their “Cocked, Locked and Ready to Rock” European tour this summer, reports CBC. This comes after public squabbling and threats of a lineup change.

“I just auditioned and I got the gig,” jokes Tyler in a promotional video featuring him sitting with his band mates. “We’re coming your way and rocking your world! Look out, because here we come.”

The band has been on hiatus since Tyler injured himself falling off stage during a show last August. They were forced to cancel the rest of their tour.

In December, Tyler checked himself into rehab for a pain killer addiction.

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It’s recently been a rough go for Steven Tyler and Aerosmith since the rockers have been toying with the idea of breaking up for the past six months now. MTV news, however, has reported they have put those ideas to rest and are planning tour dates for this upcoming summer. Guitarist Joe Perry and drummer Joey Kramer confirmed the news via twitter.

“We are looking to crossing the big pond with Aerosmith this summer for some rockin’ festivals,” Perry tweeted on Tuesday.

Kramer followed the next day, “Aerosmith is back!”

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Was Aerosmith’s front man Steven Tyler lost during his last performance? Most celebrities do not do performances at the local Home Depot, but Steven Tyler is apparently not like most celebrities. According to People magazine, Tyler visited a Home Depot in Rancho Mirage, Calif., last Saturday, where he jumped on the p.a. system and sang hits like “Dude Looks like a lady” and “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.”

The sixty-one-year-old announced in December that he had entered rehab for an addiction to prescription painkillers and pain management.

Home Depot shoppers weren’t the only lucky customers to get a free concert from the infamous singer; he also joined in on some karaoke at the Tiltet Kilt, a Palm Desert pub. Two singers were booed during their rendition of Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” so  Tyler grabbed the mic and gave the song a better, more professional ending.

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Whether or not Steven Tyler will be performing with Aerosmith anytime soon, he’s still found a way to sing his band’s songs. As rollingstone.com reported, based on Palm Springs, California’s The Desert Sun, Tyler and his management team visited the Tilted Kilt pub earlier this week.

When the group arrived at the pub, Tyler’s publicist reportedly told the night’s emcee that Tyler would not be taking part in karaoke and that no photos were to be taken of the rock star. But of course, both things happened.

As the story goes, two patrons went up on stage to sing Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” with a promise that their rendition of the song would “totally suck.” It did suck, so much in fact that the duo was booed off stage in the middle of the song. It was then that Tyler, wanting to redeem his Armageddon song, took to the stage.

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Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler has entered rehab to treat an addiction to prescription painkillers, reports rollingstone.com.

“With the help of my family and team of medical professionals I am taking responsibility for the management of my pain and am eager to be back on the stage and in the recording studio with my bandmates Joe Perry, Joey Kramer, Tom Hamilton and Brad Whitford,” Tyler said in a statement.

Tyler also cleared up some rumors which stated that he was going to take a two-year break from the band.

“I wish to set the record straight and say that I have read reports of a rumored two-year hiatus and want to be clear that this is completely false and I will enthusiastically be writing, recording and performing with Aerosmith as soon as things are handled.”

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For the loud-mouthed nature of Aerosmith’s frontman Steven Tyler, the news that he has quit the band is being kept pretty quiet. So quiet even Joe Perry, his bandmate of 40 years, hardly knows what’s going on, according to the Guardian UK.

Perry told the Las Vegas Sun, “Steven quit as far as I can tell.”

The speculation follows a statement from Tyler to Classic Rock Magazine that he is embarking on a new project, that is working on “Brand Tyler.”

There is no news on the band’s website, but Perry took to Twitter to lament the loss of his frontman.

“Hasn’t called me in months. A bit cold. What about fans? The people that also love him and put him where he is. After 40 years? …Last time I phoned him he hung up on me,” Perry wrote.

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Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler is set to reveal that he has been battling hepatitis C ever since being diagnosed with the viral disease three years ago.

The revelation came in an interview with Access Hollywood, set to air Tuesday night.

According to the New York Daily News, Tyler sayd that he contracted the infection several years earlier but had not experienced any symptoms. After being diagnosed, he underwent an aggressive treatment regimine of pills and antiviral drug injections.

“I’ve been pretty quiet about this,” says Tyler, adding that the treatment has been very successful. “It is nonexistent in my bloodstream…where it’s like a complete cure.”

Though there is, in fact, no known cure or vaccine for hepatitis C, it can be managed and reduced in the bloodstream through treatment with strong antiviral drugs that boost the immune system. Drug addicts are plagued by the disease, as it is often transmitted through dirty needles.

No details have been revealed on how Tyler picked up the disease, though he has a history of drug addiction.

Tyler also said that he will work to raise awareness about the virus.

“Hepatitis C is the one that, of all the people in this room, at least three have it and don’t know it,” he says. “It’s the silent killer. I may go on Oprah and talk about this. I hope you don’t mind me mentioning that.”