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What is Joe Perry's Net Worth?
Joe Perry is an American rock musician who has a net worth of $140 million. Perry is most famous for being the lead guitarist and occasional lead vocalist and songwriter for one of the all-time great rock bands, Aerosmith. He also fronts The Joe Perry Project and sings and plays guitar for the supergroup Hollywood Vampires.
Aerosmith has sold more than 150 million albums and released several hit singles, such as "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion," "Walk This Way," "Love in an Elevator," "Janie's Got a Gun," and "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing." Joe released his self-titled solo debut in 2005 and followed it with "Have Guitar, Will Travel" (2009), "Joe Perry's Merry Christmas" (2014), and "Sweetzerland Manifesto" (2018). Aerosmith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, and "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked Perry #84 on their 2015 "100 Greatest Guitarists" list. Joe published his memoir, "Rocks: My Life In and Out of Aerosmith," in 2014.
Early Life
Joe Perry was born Joseph Anthony Pereira on September 10, 1950, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He grew up in Hopedale, Massachusetts, with mother Mary (a gym teacher), father Anthony (an accountant), and younger sister Anne-Marie. As a child, Joe wanted to be a marine biologist, but he struggled in school. His parents told him that he might be able to get an internship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution if he got better grades, but when there was no improvement, they sent him to Vermont Academy, an all-boys prep school, during his junior year. Perry began playing guitar when he was 10 years old, learning to play with his right hand despite being left-handed, and after his Vermont Academy classmates exposed him to artists likeJimi Hendrix, The Who, and The Yardbirds, Joe's interest shifted from marine biology to rock and roll. In his memoir, Perry revealed that his poor performance in school was the result of ADHD but that he hadn't been diagnosed until adulthood.
Career
In the 1960s, Joe formed a group called The Jam Band withTom Hamilton, and afterSteven Tyler,Joey Kramer, andBrad Whitfordjoined the band, they became known as Aerosmith and released their debut self-titled album in 1973. Eleven of Aerosmith's 15 albums went Platinum or higher than in the U.S., and "Get a Grip" (1993) and "Nine Lives" (1997) reached #1 on the "Billboard" 200 chart. After the release of 1976's "Rocks," trouble began brewing within the band, with drug use and strained relationships impeding the creative process, but this didn't stop their follow-up, 1977's "Draw the Line," from going Double Platinum. In 1979, Perry left Aerosmith after an argument with Tyler, and since they were in the middle of recording the album "Night in the Ruts" at the time, temporary guitarists were hired to help finish the album. Joe formed The Joe Perry Project and released the albums "Let the Music Do the Talking" (1980), "I've Got the Rock'n'Rolls Again" (1981), and "Once a Rocker, Always a Rocker" (1983).
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