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It’s midnight on a Saturday. You’re at a piano bar. The patrons are sufficiently sauced to scream some karaoke. A Bon Jovi song just finished playing, and while it was great, it wasn’t *the* bar song. That tune is “Don’t Stop Believin'” by the band Journey, an anthem that has helped energize countless barflies, most of them juniors and seniors in college.
You hear the first chord of the song. Everyone shrieks their approval. Everyone tries and fails to hit the notes that accompany “livin’ in a lonely woooooorld.” There’s a reason everyone fails. It’s because everyone isn’t Steve Perry, the former Journey frontman who belted the high notes unlike any of his peers.
Steve Perry was so good in his day that Jon Bon Jovi, the man whose music you heard before Journey started playing, is said to have once called him “The Voice.”
He left the stage for nearly two decades. This is Steve Perry returning to it.
(h/t USA Today)
