Journey's Neal Schon took a rather unusual request in the studio and turned it into "Don't Stop Believin'", the band's most iconic track.
Journey managed to cram two complete eras into a five-album run in the '70s. That's when Journey added Steve Perry as frontman – after brief flirtation with Robert Fleischman. Drummer Steve Smith then ...
It’s not exactly what you’d expect to hear when you’re recording a tune about holding onto faith. But, sometimes, that’s how hits are made.
Journey had never gotten higher than No. 85 on the Billboard album chart when new frontman Steve Perry walked in the door in 1977. They went on to sell an astonishing nine million albums in the U.S.
From Journey‘s early fusion-driven days to modern-era LPs with long-standing frontman Arnel Pineda, the band clearly aimed to set a tone with album-opening songs. More often than not, these tracks ...
Ross Valory has dreamed of making a solo album ever since he started gigging around San Francisco in the late Sixties, but other projects kept getting in the way. He was in the process of amassing ...
Creating easily singable songs comes along with the territory of being an arena rock band. The greatest bands in that crop know how to urge audience participation. Journey has certainly honed that ...