That marked the end of the Journey debate, but it definitely set a mood for the rest of the night. Happy New Year reiterate, Steve Perry IS #Journey! /LSOTShqCMz “It’s propaganda!” he said, adding, “It’s propaganda! Not Journey… Steve Perry is Journey!”Ĭohen admitted to being a bit drunk on Twitter the morning after, tweeting, “Um, I was a bit overserved last night…” Check out the banter below. He later added, once again, “You get it? Not Journey!” Anderson replied, “That’s not true.” Cohen wouldn’t let it go.
If it’s not Steve Perry, it’s not Journey!” “Wow, I just got doused with confetti!” Cohen exclaimed. You could say the shows are rivals, so Cohen got a little dig at the broadcast and one if its star acts.Īfter classic rockers Journey performed their hit songs “Any Way You Want It” and “Don’t Stop Believin'” in Times Square, Cohen popped up on CNN’s special wearing a streamer that he said fell on him from Journey’s stage. Hosts Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen traded jolly banter all night long, and at one point, the topic shifted to music.ĭown the street, ABC was broadcasting its annual Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest show from New York City’s Times Square. 31) to ring in 2022, and per usual, the show’s guests got a little, well, tipsy. But after so many years off the road, you can't blame him for dipping his toes in the water before diving in.“Best of Journey” album cover via Sony UK – Story by Anne Erickson CNN New Year’s Eve co-host Andy Cohen gets tipsy and calls Arnel Pineda-fronted Journey ‘Not Journey’ on live TVĬNN hosted its annual New Year’s Eve special last night (Dec. The singer has yet to announce a tour or any live performances. Listen to the lead single, "No Erasin'" below. The tenth track is Perry's reimagined cover of The Beatles' "I Need You." Nine of the songs on Traces are originals. I invite you to listen with an open heart.” Each track represents traces of my past, but is also a hopeful look into the future. "Along the way, I rediscovered my love for music. "I started writing and recording these songs with the creative freedom that I was the only one who would ever hear them," he says. Perry says Traces is the last "30 years into 10 songs," and he began writing with no expectations. I felt as if I had to jump off this merry-go-round - this big beautiful mothership that we had all worked so hard together to build."īut his love for music has returned as strong as ever. Then one day, it hit me that I couldn't do this anymore. "My last show with Journey was February of 1987. "For a long time, I could barely even listen to music," he said.
Just hearing music brought back the feelings of exhaustion and lack of control he felt at the end of his tenure in Journey, Perry says.
But I had to be honest with myself, and in my heart, I knew I just wasn’t feeling it anymore.” “I’d had an amazing time in an amazing band, and then the chance to express myself as a solo artist too. “The truth is, that I thought music had run its course in my heart,” Perry explains in a statement on his website. Perry has done few interviews over the last 24 years, but as the singer prepares to revamp his career with, Traces, his first solo album since 1994, he's taken the added step of explaining himself - he was physically unwell and burnt out. His lack of creative output was a stark change from his time in Journey, a band that was seemingly either on tour or in the studio for the entirety of the 1980s. Since leaving Journey officially in 1996 due to a crippling hip injury that prevented him from touring, Perry has been surprisingly absent from music. While Perry hasn't necessarily been avoiding the public eye, he hasn't sought it out either. Former Journey frontman Steve Perry has been something of a white whale in the world of classic rock for the last 20 or so years.
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