UltimateClassicRock - Happy 64th birthday, Steve Perry!

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Happy 64th birthday, Steve Perry! Here's our brand new list of the Top 10 Journey songs:

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/journey-songs/

One of the early progenitors of what rock critics like to dismiss as “arena rock,” Journey achieved prominence in the ’70s and ’80s with a series of hits that highlighted an interesting blend of guitar-driven hard rock and vocal-oriented pop.

Journey were undoubtedly ahead of their time in terms of marketing and especially in terms of professionalizing their live shows, pioneering elements of live production that are standard procedure today. But while the group took a great deal of flack for the skill with which they were marketed, it is the music they created that has endured across the decades, connecting with several subsequent generations.

The group’s earliest musical origins featured an elaborate mix of rock and progressive fusion, but it wasn’t until they later shifted in a more commercial direction that they began their long, slow climb to superstardom. Though they were often critically derided, Journey’s best work boasted a level of instrumental and vocal ability far beyond that of most of their peers and covered a wide array of styles — as you’ll see in our list of the Top 10 Journey Songs.