The 32nd Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn tonight and the 2017 inductees are Journey, Pearl Jam, Tupac Shakur, Yes, and Joan Baez. Let’s finish the week and get you ready for the Hall of Fame ceremony with a few details about the greatest 80s band ever – Journey!
Fact – nearly 100 million records sold! Fact – 13 studio albums, and tons of charted tunes. Fact – single handily changed the concert crowd by writing ballads that brought women to their shows.
In 1986, the group split with bassist Ross Valory and brought in a young musician by the name of Randy Jackson – yes that Randy Jackson from the hit reality show ‘American Idol.’ Journey has never won a Grammy, but was nominated for their 1996 tune “When You Love a Woman.”
Did you know that Canada is south Detroit? It’s a city called Windsor, so there is no “South Detroit” like it says in their “Don’t Stop Believing” tune.
BTW, Steve Perry was furious the producers of the HBO show ‘The Sopranos’ who used ‘Don’t Stop….” in the final scene. Did you know that the Glee cover of that song charted batter the original, or that the Chipmunks did a cover?
The LA Dodgers were asked to stop playing the song “Don’t Stop Believing” during innings by Steve Perry, personally. They thought about it before realizing Steve was a San Francisco Giants fan! Well, now they play the song more just to make him madder!
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