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It was an unlikely spawning ground for one of the most successful bands in the history of rock and roll. In the spring of 1970, an apartment at 1325 Commonwealth Avenue — a building owned by Boston University — was rented to five guys who didn’t exactly go to college. They somehow managed to cough up the $300 rent each month to share three bedrooms and one bathroom, stacking guitars and amps along all available wall space. None of them had day jobs, so they spent all their waking hours writing songs and rehearsing, pausing only to catch The Three Stooges on TV. For anyone attending BU at the time, they were a hard band to miss: they could be seen playing the George Sherman Union and dormitory quads between shows at other unspectacular venues, such as the Franklin Park Zoo, naval bases, and area high schools. For years survival depended on taking any gig that came along. And any student who got through BU at the time without hearing their music has certainly heard them since: they’re called Aerosmith. (Click here to read rest of article).