History Music / JourneyBand

** The video for [[invoked]][[FaceOfTheBand Steve Perry's]] solo number-one hit, "Oh Sherrie". It starts as a ConceptVideo set in the Middle Ages, but the music grinds to a halt and we discover we're on the set for the video. Perry gets disgusted with the video storyline (which has nothing to do with the song), walks off the set and ends up singing the song to his girlfriend as she walks up. The video ends with everyone getting back into position to film the "real" video again, as Perry walks out.

* VocalTagTeam: Steve Perry & Gregg Rolie, on the ''Infinity'', ''Evolution'', ''Departure'' and ''Captured'' albums. Yes, Journey really did have [[invoked]][[FaceOfTheBand more than one singer]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: The aforementioned Bad English supergroup, which was really a successor to both Journey ''and'' the Babys.

** The video for [[FaceOfTheBand Steve Perry's]] solo number-one hit, "Oh Sherrie". It starts as a ConceptVideo set in the Middle Ages, but the music grinds to a halt and we discover we're on the set for the video. Perry gets disgusted with the video storyline (which has nothing to do with the song), walks off the set and ends up singing the song to his girlfriend as she walks up. The video ends with everyone getting back into position to film the "real" video again, as Perry walks out.

* TyopOnTheCover: The [[https://img.discogs.com/NdeMS2s1Lb4p7VtHWGaEiJWIIps=/fit-in/600x608/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1296202-1445297945-8593.jpeg.jpg cassette release]] of ''Dream, After Dream'' misspells "The Rape" as "The Rafe".

* VocalTagTeam: Steve Perry & Gregg Rolie, on the ''Infinity'', ''Evolution'', ''Departure'' and ''Captured'' albums. Yes, Journey really did have [[FaceOfTheBand more than one singer]].

* LiveAlbum: ''Captured'' (1981), ''Greatest Hits Live'' (1998), and "Escape: Live In Houston" (released in 2005, recorded in 1981).
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Steve Perry, to the point that the man himself fetishized and parodied this trope during his solo tour for ''For The Love of Strange Medicine'' by making a huge production of taking a ponytail-tie out of his waist-length hair. Visit any fanboard, and there'll almost always be posts gushing about Perry's long hair.

** "Any way you want it! That's the way you need it! Any way you want it!" (guitar riff) ... (Technically, there's a drumbeat at the same moment as the first syllable, and a couple more before the guitar starts up, but it's close enough for jazz.)

* ''Captured'' -- 1980

* NotChristianRock: "Faith in the Heartland".
-->''In our darkest hour, we look to the sky''
-->''With a silent prayer, believe that God's on our side''

* UnusualEuphemism: "Homemade Love" from the Departure album. "Jellyroll sweetie" is (by Steve Perry's own admission in a 1980 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJnqdGsRT7I interview]]) a euphemism for a "young girl". Yeah. [[UnfortunateImplications That young]].

Not to be confused with 3 video games of the same name, including [[VideoGame/Journey2012 the one released in 2012]].

Not to be confused with 3 video games of the same name, including [[VideoGame/{{Journey}} the one released in 2012]].

* Randy Jackson[[note]]yes, [[Series/AmericanIdol that one]][[/note]] - bass guitar (1985-1987, 2020-2021)

* Narada Michael Walden - drums (2020–21)

* '''Randy Jackson'''[[note]]yes, [[Series/AmericanIdol that one]][[/note]] - bass guitar (1985-1987, 2020-present)

* '''Randy Jackson'''[[note]]yes, [[Series/AmericanIdol that one]][[/note]] - bass guitar (1985-1987, 2020–present)

* '''Narada Michael Walden''' - drums (2020–present)

* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: The 2011 and 2012 interviews from Steve Perry, former lead singer. [[http://fanasylum.com/steveperry/ Cruelty to the common ellipsis, lack of any punctuation, and the clashing text color]] make these almost un-readable.

* '''Randy Jackson''' - bass guitar (1985-1987, 2020–present)

* Deen Castronovo - drums, backing and occasional lead vocals (1998-2015, 2021-present)

* Deen Castronovo - drums, backing and occasional lead vocals (1998-2015)

* "People of the South Wind" by Music/{{Kansas}}, while crouched in some fantastic imagery, is another song about the emptiness of traveling the world without a place to call home, and wishing it were possible to return to one's youthful home.

[[caption-width-right:350:Most recent lineup up until 2020.\\

An American rock band formed in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco in 1973. Initially a jazz-based progressive rock group with keyboard player Gregg Rolie as the lead vocalist, the label eventually requested they get a full frontman. Enter Steve Perry, and the band immediately shifted to a more commercial pop/rock sound. They went on to release a string of multi-platinum hits from the late [[TheSeventies seventies]] to mid-[[TheEighties eighties]]. Along the way, they became one of the most popular rock and roll bands in America, and quite possibly the definitive ArenaRock group of the decade. Ask anyone to name an '80s band and Journey will probably be one of the first names that pops out. Tuning in to any soft rock or easy-listening radio station gives you a roughly 80% chance of hearing one of their songs at any given moment.

The band still tours today with Arnel Pineda as the current lead singer and has enjoyed something of a renaissance in recent years.

** The current lineup is subject to change. After Schon and Cain fired Smith and Valory in 2020, lawsuits from both sides in the dispute quickly followed, with issues including the firing itself and ownership of the "Journey" name. Jackson's and Walden's official involvement is pending resolution of the legal matters; Derlatka's membership is not at issue.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Their long-time manager, Herbie Herbert, was the one who insisted the band needed a lead singer/frontman. The band objected, but gave in. They had a false start with Robert Fleischmann on vocals, but once he was replaced by Steve Perry, the band began selling more records and playing larger venues. A rare case of ExecutiveMeddling gone right.