Perry suggested an a cappella beginning, which he connected with the old Four Tops song "Bernadette," where singer Levi Stubbs cried out her nameall by himself. Perry would sing the opening "should have been gone!" in much the same manner. By the end, Perry had somehow woven these dispar...
Perry suggested an a cappella beginning, which he connected with the old Four Tops song "Bernadette," where singer Levi Stubbs cried out her nameall by himself. Perry would sing the opening "should have been gone!" in much the same manner. By the end, Perry had somehow woven these dispar...
Steve Perry’s love for old-school soul singers is evident from his Journey debut in the late '70s. But he could also square off with the most powerful rock singers of the ‘80s, anchoring band staples like “Don’t Stop Believin’” and “Ask the Lonely” with a voice that soared in...
“In the beginning, I must tell you, some of the songwriting demons, when I sat by myself and started sketching ideas, I forgot that I had not gone into that place in a long time. And at first, it was a scary place to walk back into,” Perry says. “Like an old house you wer...
“I really think that this is the next equivalent of aSopranosmoment for a whole new generation,” Perry enthused. “My doctor calls me all the time and puts his 16-year-old on the phone with me because she can’t believe that I know her dad. But they’re watching the show together...
yet to capture the album cover forHIT ME HARD AND SOFT, she spent six brutal hours on-and-off submerged underwater with a weight on her shoulders."A lot of my artwork is painful physically in a lot of ways, and I love it," the 22-year-old toldRolling Stone. "Oh,...
Steve Cropper is still going strong at 83 years old. He reports that he enjoyed HBO's recent StaxRecords docuseries, andhas an unfinished instrumentals album in the can. He hasn't time for regrets, only dreams, but the name of the one person Cropper wishes he had worked with fires off ...
“One of the first things we did was a song called ‘Who’s Crying Now,’,” Perry said. “Driving up from Los Angeles I was in my car, and I always keep a mini cassette player with me. I heard in my head the chorus – I heard the whole chorus. I don’t know where it came...
Steve Cropper is still going strong at 83 years old. He reports that he enjoyed HBO's recent StaxRecords docuseries, andhas an unfinished instrumentals album in the can. He hasn't time for regrets, only dreams, but the name of the one person Cropper wishes he had worked wi...
[old] records. That’s all I can say.” The following year he told the radio host that a reunion was impossible. "It's not gonna happen. You're dealing with a lot of ego... I'd rather be out there [solo] than having the band out there with just me and the bass player in ...