Trivia / Journey (Band)

• Breakthrough Hit: The album Infinity and single "Wheel in the Sky", featuring the debut of Steve Perry. Additionally there's "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'", their first Top 20 hit in America.
• Chart Displacement: "Don't Stop Believin'" is not their highest-charting song at #9, surpassed by "Open Arms" (#2), "Who's Crying Now" (#4) and "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" (#8)
• Creator Backlash: Jonathan Cain was so disappointed with Eclipse, it tanked any recording plans since then.
  • Possibly the case with Next. In over 40 years after its release, only the instrumental "Nickel and Dime" was ever played live, and only during the band's 30th anniversary tour. Also, Next is completely absent from the discography in the booklet of Arrival's Japanese edition.
  • Few if any of them have anything nice to say of the "Separate Ways" video, admitting that even they were not sure what the idea behind it was.
• Cut Song: "Only The Young" and "Ask The Lonely" were both cut from the original release of Frontiers, with "Only The Young" appearing on the soundtrack of the 1985 film Vision Quest, and "Ask The Lonely" used for the 1983 film Two Of A Kind. Both were later restored on the album's 2006 CD re-release with "Liberty" and "Only Solutions" from TRON added.
• Executive Meddling:
  • Ross Valory and Steve Smith apparently tried to invoke this. They allegedly tried to launch a boardroom coup to take control of Journey, prompting Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain to exercise their corporate control and dismiss Valory and Smith from the band.
  • A rare case gone right: Journey's long-time manager Herbie Herbert insisted that the band needed a lead singer/frontman. After several objections, the band gave in and had a false start with Robert Fleischman on vocals, and went on to achieve mainstream success after Fleischmann was replaced by Steve Perry.
• He Also Did: Jonathan Cain has also made a solo career as a Christian Rock artist.
• Money, Dear Boy: The firing of Ross Valory and Steve Smith revealed that Steve Perry still gets a cut of the profits from Journey's current touring and album sales, as part of the agreement that convinced him to depart as a formal member of the band.
• The Pete Best: Robert Fleischman was frontman and lead singer for a very short time in 1977, writing "Wheel in the Sky" and recording "For You" with the band before Steve Perry joined.
• Promoted Fanboy: Arnel Pineda was initially approached to join the group after Neil Schon saw Youtube videos of him covering their songs.
• Referenced by...: While in class, Jubilee wears a Journey T-shirt in X-Men: Apocalypse.
• Troubled Production: The much-derided video for "Separate Ways" ran into this. Aside from the band's qualms about moving from performance videos to concept videos and, to quote the producer, the "inane" premise of the video (with a woman dreaming about the band playing air instruments), they had been instructed to not bring their wives or girlfriends to the shoot. Apparently, Steve Perry didn't catch the memo and brought his then-girlfriend Sherrie Swafford, whom the other band members just didn't like. Swafford, furious at the presence of the model in the video, repeatedly slut-shamed her during arguments with Perry in his trailer — where he had to retreat often to escape the cool breeze blowing in off the Mississippi River. As a result of this experience, the only videos for Raised on Radio were concert recordings, and the video for Perry's solo song "Oh Sherrie" included a Take That! toward the video for "Separate Ways".
• Tyop on the Cover: The cassette release◊ of Dream, After Dream misspells "The Rape" as "The Rafe".