Journey’s transformation from jazz-rock noodlers into the hard rock behemoth behind Don’t Stop Believin’ coincided with the arrival of singer Steve Perry in 1977.
But Perry wasn’t the band’s first lead singer. Keyboard player Gregg Rolie was the band’s original vocalist. But between the two was Robert Fleischman, recruited by Journey’s manager, Herbie Herbert, to give the largely faceless band more of an identity.
