After the disappointing cancellation of Aerosmith’s Peace Out: The Farewell Tour 15 months ago, Joe Perry did not foresee he and bandmate Steven Tyler getting back in the saddle very quickly — and certainly not with the first new Aerosmith music in 13 years.

So the guitarist regards the Friday (Nov. 21) arrival of One More Time, a five-song EP in collaboration with British rocker Yungblud, as nothing short of — as the song says — amazing.

“I think it’s great,” Perry tells Billboard about the project, whose first single, “My Only Angel,” went No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart and hit No. 7 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. “It’s certainly nothing we had planned. We really didn’t. It was pretty traumatic, what happened; we’ve had to cancel gigs before, but this was a big one. T

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