Don‘t Stop Believin‘

Journey‘s story is really a series of stories spanning the post-hippie San Francisco scene of the early 1970s and a new global youth audience addicted to the hit tv series glee. The original Journey was a hastily-assembled West Coast band that progressed from jazz fusion to arena-oriented rock, becoming hugely successful in the process. That shift of direction, as well as the passing of the years, brought about many line-up changes and this first-ever biography traces every twist and turn of the saga, notably Journey‘s early 80s heyday when front man Steve Perry replaced Robert Fleischman who had himself been hired to supplement keyboard player Gregg Rolie on vocals. More than forty years on, the various shifts of direction and line-up may look daunting, but author Neil Daniel‘s original interviews and rigorous research have made this biography the definitive account of a wildly successful band with a lot of history. It is perhaps fitting that Journey‘s optimistic 1981 hit ‘Don‘t Stop Believin‘, would eventually become the most downloaded track on iTunes.