Roosevelt’s Star Alumna To Pen Memoir
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- August
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At Roosevelt High School in Yonkers back in the 1960’s, he was known as Steve Tallarico, the drummer in the marching band who got expelled for drug use.
Today the world knows him as Steven Tyler, the simian front man for the rock super-group “Aerosmith”:http://www.aerosmith.com/
Well, it had to happen. Tyler, aka Tallarico, is now reportedly writing a memoir about his upbringing in the Bronx and lower Westchester, and his days as a wild and crazy rocker. Last summer, I wrote a “column”:http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070816/COLUMNIST08/708160353/1010/COLUMNIST08 about some of his antics at Roosevelt where he is still remembered as one of the school’s more colorful pupils.
Tyler’s book is to be published by Ecco, a division of HarperCollins. It’s will be in book stores some time next year.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
Alumna? Are you by chance making reference to sexual orientation? If not, of course he would be an alumnus, and a member of the alumni (if, in fact, he returned and graduated after expulsion).