Steve Perry Reveals What City ‘Lights’ Was Written About

[tater1977]

Steve Perry Reveals What City ‘Lights’ Was Written About [VIDEO]

By: Mark Richards | 14 hours ago

http://lite987.com/steve-perry-reveals- ... out-video/

Wow, I got this one wrong. For years I’ve been playing ‘Lights’ from Journey on the radio and often said that Steve Perry wrote the song about their home city of San Francisco. Wrong! Steve says that it was actually originally written about Los Angeles. Technically I was correct because Perry went on to explain how the song changed cities once guitarist Neal Schon was brought into the songwriting process.

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“I told Neal about this idea, and he liked it and wrote the bridge with me. It quickly switched to going over the Golden Gate Bridge and observing the same thing — the lights going down, and then of course, ‘the sun shines on the bay’. I actually had the song sketched in my brain while I was living in L.A. I was up at Griffith Park Observatory many nights looking over the lights of Los Angeles. And being a country boy, it just astonished me how it would go on forever. One morning, very early, the sun was coming up and the lights were slowly starting to go down and the original line was: ‘When the lights go down in the city/and the sun shines on L.A.’”

Well, regardless of the city he sings of, enjoy this performance of ‘Lights’ during Game 2 of the 2010 World Series

http://youtu.be/sJAHeme_dsA

[Babyblue]

Still love this song.

[Don]

Steve Perry Reveals What City ‘Lights’ Was Written About [VIDEO]

By: Mark Richards | 14 hours ago

http://lite987.com/steve-perry-reveals- ... out-video/

Wow, I got this one wrong. For years I’ve been playing ‘Lights’ from Journey on the radio and often said that Steve Perry wrote the song about their home city of San Francisco. Wrong! Steve says that it was actually originally written about Los Angeles. Technically I was correct because Perry went on to explain how the song changed cities once guitarist Neal Schon was brought into the songwriting process.

“

“I told Neal about this idea, and he liked it and wrote the bridge with me. It quickly switched to going over the Golden Gate Bridge and observing the same thing — the lights going down, and then of course, ‘the sun shines on the bay’. I actually had the song sketched in my brain while I was living in L.A. I was up at Griffith Park Observatory many nights looking over the lights of Los Angeles. And being a country boy, it just astonished me how it would go on forever. One morning, very early, the sun was coming up and the lights were slowly starting to go down and the original line was: ‘When the lights go down in the city/and the sun shines on L.A.’”

Well, regardless of the city he sings of, enjoy this performance of ‘Lights’ during Game 2 of the 2010 World Series

http://youtu.be/sJAHeme_dsA

So, the million dollar question is, is the girl in the white sweatshirt his daughter?

[indigo]

Didn't we all know that he originally wrote this song about LA?

[JRNYMAN]

Didn't we all know that he originally wrote this song about LA?

Yeah... wasn't that fact mentioned in the Time 3 booklet? And does the fact that Perry is on record stating that "We wrote a song about our hometown, San Francisco..... It's called Lights." pretty much make him a liar? And if so, how much of what he stated regarding his hike in Hawaii and the subsequent required surgery for his hip can we actually believe? Hmm....?? Anyone...??

[tater1977]

Didn't we all know that he originally wrote this song about LA?

Yeah... wasn't that fact mentioned in the Time 3 booklet? And does the fact that Perry is on record stating that "We wrote a song about our hometown, San Francisco..... It's called Lights." pretty much make him a liar? And if so, how much of what he stated regarding his hike in Hawaii and the subsequent required surgery for his hip can we actually believe? Hmm....?? Anyone...??

Sounds minor when compared to Schon's...(paraphrasing here)... I didn't know that
SA was lip synching...I have tintinitus & can't hear....

[journeyrock]

Sounds minor when compared to Schon's...(paraphrasing here)... I didn't know that
SA was lip synching...I have tintinitus & can't hear....

Priceless!!!!

[DracIsBack]

Didn't we all know that he originally wrote this song about LA?

Yeah... wasn't that fact mentioned in the Time 3 booklet? And does the fact that Perry is on record stating that "We wrote a song about our hometown, San Francisco..... It's called Lights." pretty much make him a liar? And if so, how much of what he stated regarding his hike in Hawaii and the subsequent required surgery for his hip can we actually believe? Hmm....?? Anyone...??[/quote]

Wow - that's quite a leap ...

[RedWingFan]

Didn't we all know that he originally wrote this song about LA?

Yeah... wasn't that fact mentioned in the Time 3 booklet? And does the fact that Perry is on record stating that "We wrote a song about our hometown, San Francisco..... It's called Lights." pretty much make him a liar? And if so, how much of what he stated regarding his hike in Hawaii and the subsequent required surgery for his hip can we actually believe? Hmm....?? Anyone...??

Sounds minor when compared to Schon's...(paraphrasing here)... I didn't know that
SA was lip synching...I have tintinitus & can't hear....

Stop making excuses for Eclipse.