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 ...

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 ...

Neal Schon came up with the idea for "Stone in Love" (featured on Escape) at a house party, writing the signature riff and structure, while Steve Perry, with the help of Jonathan Cain (who replaced ...

Journey fans tend to play the expected hits. In most cases, the album's biggest single is also the song that's streamed the most on Spotify. From "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" and "Any Way You Want It ...

Hello, and welcome to the second edition of No Skips, a column where I analyze an album and deem every track as unskippable. This week, we will look at Journey’s “Greatest Hits,” an album that defined ...

While Journey was working on their 1983 album Frontiers, their track “Only the Young.” Before the band could record the song, an A & R rep suggested they cut the track from the album days before the ...

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.

You never know how or where an entertainer will be discovered. After Ryan Christopher sang the Journey classic “Don't Stop Believin’ ” at a karaoke bar in Tennessee in 2005, a guitarist approached the ...