“Journey wanted to make a musical change. Next thing I know I’m in Denver, Colorado with Neal Schon and we wrote our first song together that night”: How Steve Perry became the voice of Journey and took the band to its peak – before he had to bow out

Journey in 1981.

When Journey celebrated their first No.1 album in 1981, it was no overnight success.

The album that hit the top, Escape, was the band’s seventh in a career that began with three successive flops that limped to No.138, No.100 and No.85 respectively.