American Idol Archive

Steven Tyler and his band Aerosmith will hit the American Idol stage on May 23.

The band will perform their new single on the grand finale of the show despite the fact guitarist Joe Perry had criticised the show when Tyler joined.

"It wasn't about the show – it was about how we found out about it," Perry told Rolling Stone. "I was pissed off about that whole thing, but I've played on it before and the band is gonna play on it in the last episode of the season to debut the new single. So it's not about the show, it's about how we found out about it. It was a bit of a shock and it took us off balance."

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Incoming America’s Got Talent judge Howard Stern has taken a jab at the judges on American Idol, calling them “selfish”.

The radio personality said that this year’s AGT will bring something new to the talent show format.

"I think what you'll find is that we have a panel that unlike these other judging shows, you know, I watch 'American Idol' sometimes, and those three judges, they don't have a word of criticism," Stern said. "And I think that's selfish. I think you owe it to the contestants to offer criticism."

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70 million votes later and we've got the results.  Tonight the top 4 become the top 3 and the remaining contestants will be getting a bit of time off to jet to their home towns for a visit.

Before we get to the official part of the evening there are some songs to be sung.  First up, the final four perform California Dreaming.

And it's performance recap time.  Phillip Phillips is up first but he's not getting a verdict.  Neither is Hollie Cavanagh.

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