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Dan has never quite been able to decide what his favourite Aerosmith track is, although he has Walk This Way as his phone ringtone. He has come to Abu Dhabi purely to see his all-time favourite group play, despite having seen them live 14 times before. He is just much relieved that Steven Tyler has recovered from his injuries after falling off stage in South Dakota in August. That’s rock ’n’ roll for you, Dan thinks.

He has flown into Abu Dhabi from America, on a torturously circuitous route via Amsterdam and Bahrain, because he only booked tickets last month, after Aerosmith had been confirmed. He appreciates that the thousands of dollars he is spending on the trip is a good deal of money, but there is no tour in the pipeline and Tyler and Joe Perry aren’t getting any younger. Because he is male, he enjoyed the performance by Beyoncé and reckoned the Kings of Leon were pretty good, too. But really, for Dan it’s all about the Toxic Twins.

He wonders who this Jenson Button guy is that everyone is talking about, and although he can name every single Aerosmith album (Toys in the Attic is his favourite), he can barely name a single Formula One team. Ferrari? They’re supposed to be pretty good aren’t they, he wonders. He will spend most of the day in the food outlets, waiting for those noisy cars to calm down. All this fuss about a race, he sighs, when we have rock greatness in our midst.

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