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Why did Steve Perry leave Journey?

The legendary vocalist turns 77 on January 22.
My husband always loved it and always thought I should have recorded it with Kenny Rogers, but I never got a chance to do that." ...
Steve Perry walking away from Journey in the late 1980s looked, from the outside, like a classic rock‑star burnout story. For ...
Journey’s “Final Frontier Tour” consists of 60 shows, starting Feb. 28 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The band will travel across the U.S. throughout the first half of the year, ending in Loredo, Texas on ...
When Journey celebrated their first No.1 album in 1981, it was no overnight success. The album that hit the top, Escape, was the band’s seventh in a career that began with three successive flops that ...
For a Bay Area band famous for selling out stadiums with immaculately dramatic ’80s rock, Journey had some country roots too. “I was raised in the San Joaquin Valley,” the band’s former singer Steve ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former Journey frontman and the country icon turn the band’s classic 1983 single into a wistful, meditative ballad as Nelson ...
Journey’s 1983 hit “Faithfully” is one of the definitive arena-rock power ballads, the songs that demanded lighters-up singalongs in the years before we all had flashlights on our phones. Now, the ...
Herbie Herbert was the architect of the band Journey. He set up their initial lineup, built their reputation on the road and in stores, hired Steve Perry and made them all very rich through related ...
Former Journey lead singer Steve Perry may have a message for fans: Don't stop believing — in a possible comeback. Perry performed live for the first time in nearly two decades Sunday night at the ...
Joining Journey in 1977, Steve Perry helmed the band’s most commercially successful iteration. The San Francisco prog-rockers released multiple hits with Perry at the mic, including their seminal 1981 ...