Year : 1998 (Japan Remastered Edition 2006)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 172 mb
Bio:
Stephen Ray Perry (born January 22, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of the rock band Journey during their most commercially successful periods from 1977 to 1987, and again from 1995 to 1998. Perry had a successful solo career between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. After a nearly twenty-year hiatus, Perry announced his return to music in 2018.Perry's singing voice has garnered acclaim from prominent musical peers and publications; he has been called "The Voice", a moniker originally coined by friend and former chart peer Jon Bon Jovi.He was ranked no. 76 on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey on April 7, 2017.Original Journey organizer/manager Walter "Herbie" Herbert had been given a demo of an Alien Project song, "If You Need Me, Call Me", and was told by producer Scott Mathews that the young singer would be a great replacement for then current frontman Robert Fleischman. Fleischman had never signed with Herbert's company, preferring his previous manager and he had not fully coalesced with the band's then progressive rock style. Perry was brought on tour and to avoid alarming Fleischman, Perry was clandestinely included as roadie "John Villanueva's Portuguese cousin" and on the tour during a sound check in Long Beach surreptitiously performed a song with Journey while Fleischman was away from the stage, and after that Herbert informed the band members of the lineup change.Perry brought a radically new, more pop-influenced style sense to the band's music, despite some grumblings from his new bandmates and fans of Journey's former progressive rock sound. He made his public debut on October 28, 1977 in San Francisco to a mixed reception. Perry eventually won over new fans on his first album with the group, Infinity, which included a song he wrote called "Lights." The band's style had changed dramatically, but as Journey began to garner radio airplay and media buzz over Infinity, Perry's arrival was fully accepted.Perry provided lead vocals on nine of Journey's albums: Infinity (1978), Evolution (1979), Departure (1980), Dream, After Dream (1980, a Japanese movie soundtrack), Captured (1980, a live album), Escape (1981, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart), Frontiers (1983), Raised on Radio (1986), and Trial By Fire (1996). The single "Open Arms" from Escape was their biggest hit single, charting at No. 2 for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. Perry had become the unmistakable voice of Journey.During his Journey tenure, Perry also sang backing vocals on several Sammy Hagar songs, including the 1980 tracks "The Iceman" (a nickname Hagar had for Scott Mathews) and "Run For Your Life", and duetting with Kenny Loggins on the 1982 No. 17 hit single "Don't Fight It". Perry also worked with other musicians including Sheena Easton, Clannad, and Jon Bon Jovi during the height of his career. A 1983 Gallup poll of people between the ages of 13 and 25 voted Journey their favorite rock band.In 1984, following the release of Frontiers and the tour supporting this effort, Perry released his first solo album, Street Talk (the album's title was derived from the original name of Perry's earlier band Alien Project). The record sold more than 2 million units, scoring the hit singles No. 3 "Oh Sherrie", written for his then-girlfriend Sherrie Swafford, and No. 18 "Foolish Heart". The music video for "Oh Sherrie" saw heavy rotation on MTV. "She's Mine" and "Strung Out" were also released as singles from this project, which featured former Alien Project drummer Craig Krampf on a few tracks, guitarist Michael Landau, and future American Idol judge Randy Jackson on bass, among others.In 1985, Perry was one of 21 singers in the USA for Africa all-star benefit song "We Are the World". He also recorded a song, "If Only For the Moment, Girl" for the We Are the World album. This song was added to the reissue of his album Street Talk. Also during this period Perry worked with the Irish folk-rock group Clannad on their 1987 album Sirius.While Perry was reuniting with Journey, his mother became ill. The recording of Raised on Radio, which Perry was producing, was stop-and-go as he frequently returned to the San Joaquin Valley to visit his mother, who died during the production of the album. It took a major toll on Journey to have intermittent recording sessions and a vocalist who was not with the band much of the time. Eventually, Perry became exhausted from the ordeal. Journey then disbanded in 1987 after the Raised on Radio tour.In 1988, Perry began to work on another solo album, Against the Wall, which he ultimately left unfinished (though several of the songs that were recorded for Against the Wall would appear on Perry's 1998 solo compilation, Greatest Hits + Five Unreleased). A year later, on April 30, 1989, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, in Mountain View, California, Perry joined Bon Jovi to perform Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home to Me" and the Four Tops' "Reach Out". He would also reunite with Journey at the Bill Graham tribute concert, "Laughter, Love and Music" on November 3, 1991, at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, performing "Faithfully" and "Lights". Other than those three events, however, Perry mostly disappeared from the public eye for seven years, taking a break from the music industry.
Album:
Remastered reissue of STEVE PERRY‘s “Greatest Hits” in its Japanese pressing, originally titled “Greatest Hits + Five Unreleased” including bonus tracks taken directly from Steve’s personal vault – this reissue includes an extra track.The album contains hits from his two solo albums Street Talk (1984) and For the Love of Strange Medicine (1994) as well as several previously unreleased tracks from the abandoned 1988 solo project ‘Against The Wall’, as well as demos, b-sides and collaborations.‘Against The Wall’ was originally going to be Perry’s second solo album. It was shelved by a corporate executive during the time when Sony Music bought Columbia Records. Perry recalled the executive said he was unsure about the musical direction of the album. Apparently stunned at this response, Perry sought legal means to have the album completed and released otherwise but was unsuccessful. Sony ultimately did not release the album.Seven of these tracks were later released on this album and the others were released as bonus tracks on the 2006 re-issue of For the Love of Strange Medicine.
Line Up:
Steve Perry - vocals - See also: ex-Journey
Production:
Arranged By [String And Orchestra Arrangements] – David Foster (tracks: 15), Larry Dalton (tracks: 14), William Ross (tracks: 15)
Art Direction, Design – David Coleman (5)
Bass – Bob Glaub (tracks: 1 to 3, 5), Bryan Garofalo (tracks: 4), Chuck Domanico (tracks: 5), Larry Kimpel (tracks: 13), Randy Jackson (2) (tracks: 6 to 9, 11), Richard Michaels* (tracks: 17), Tim Miner (tracks: 14)
Bass [Keyboard Bass] – Adrian Gurvitz (tracks: 16), David Foster (tracks: 15), Randy Goodrum (tracks: 10, 12)
Drums – Craig Krampf (tracks: 4, 17), John Robinson (2) (tracks: 6, 15), Larrie Londin (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 7 to 9, 11), Moyes Lucas, Jr.* (tracks: 13)
Drums, Programmed By [Programmer] – Randy Goodrum (tracks: 2, 10, 12), Tony Brock (tracks: 16)
Engineer [Engineered By] – Chris Lord-Alge (tracks: 6), Dee Robb (tracks: 7 to 9, 11, 17), Felipe Elgueta (tracks: 15), Frank Salazar (tracks: 14), Humberto Gatica (tracks: 15), James "Jimbo" Barton (tracks: 13), Niko Bolas (tracks: 1 to 5), Randy Goodrum (tracks: 6 to 12), Tim Kimsay* (tracks: 14)
Executive-Producer – Bruce Botnick (tracks: 1 to 12, 14, 17)
Guitar – Adrian Gurvitz (tracks: 16), Billy Steele (2) (tracks: 4), Craig Hull (tracks: 4), Lincoln Brewster (tracks: 13), Mike Landau* (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11), Michael Thompson (tracks: 15), Steve DeLacey* (tracks: 17), Waddy Wachtel (tracks: 1)
Mastered By [Mastering By] – George Marino
Mixed By – Chris Lord-Alge (tracks: 6 to 12), Craig Burbidge (tracks: 14), Dee Robb (tracks: 17), Mick Guzauski (tracks: 15), Niko Bolas (tracks: 1 to 5, 13)
Photography By [All Photos Except Inset #1, 2, 3] – Reisig & Taylor
Photography By [Inset #1] – Neil Zlozower
Photography By [Inset #3] – Todd Kaplan
Photography [Inset #2] – Personal Collection
Piano, Synth – Adrian Gurvitz (tracks: 16), Bill Cuomo (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 7 to 9, 11), David Foster (tracks: 15), Paul Taylor (8) (tracks: 13), Randy Goodrum (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 12), Scott Thurston (tracks: 17), Sterling Smith (tracks: 4), Steve Goldstein (tracks: 4), Tim Miner (tracks: 14)
Piano, Synth, Programmed By [Programmer] – Felipe Elgueta (tracks: 15)
Producer – Carole Bayer Sager (tracks: 15), Craig Krampf (tracks: 17), David Foster (tracks: 15), Dee Robb (tracks: 17), James "Jimbo" Barton (tracks: 13), Randy Goodrum (tracks: 6 to 12), Steve Perry (tracks: 1 to 5), Tim Miner (tracks: 14)
Saxophone – Steve Douglas (tracks: 3)
Technician [Tape Archive Assistance] – Al Quaglieri
Tracklist:
01. Oh Sherrie
02. Foolish Heart
03. She’s Mine
04. Strung Out
05. Go Away
06. When You’re In Love (previously unreleased)
07. Against The Wall (previously unreleased)
08. Forever Right Or Wrong [Love’s Like A River]
09. Summer Of Luv (previously unreleased)
10. Melody
11. Once In A Lifetime, Girl (previously unreleased)
12. What Was
13. You Better Wait
14. Missing You
15. I Stand Alone
16. It Won’t Be You (Writing Demo)
17. If You Need Me, Call Me (unreleased demo version)
18. Don’t Fight It (With Kenny Loggins) (Reissue Bonus Track)
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