![]() ![]() The Chorus sound concerned for Perry’s wellbeing, and finish his sentence… He has his buddies singing like a Greek chorus behind him, including his fellow heartbroken co-writer of the song, Jonathan Cain, for whom these feelings are all too raw. “ Do I miss you? Am I lying to myself again?”Īt this point he trails off, a broken man, but Perry is not alone. “ I’ve been thinking of the time you walked out on me” he says, and already we know he’s feeling down. The protagonist (and co-writer) of Journey’s “I’ll Be Alright Without You” is Steve Perry, golden throated warbler of the highest quality, a man who you can imagine spent his entire childhood listening to Sam Cooke records, but accidentally found himself the singer in an American Adult Orientated Rock band between 19.Ī singer whose stage clothing revealed a man with such regard for formality that he always wore a jacket, but never so much so that he’d feel obligated to wear a shirt.įrom the title alone, you may think Perry is grandstanding a former lover, but the opposite is true, as we soon discover. His singer had also split from a long term girlfriend, and that combination of two broken hearts in one band resulted in the rawest performance in a pop song this side of ABBA’s “The Winner Takes It All”. Arena Rock is widely viewed as an American phenomenon, devoid of emotion, credibility or, in particular, authenticity.īut when Jonathan Cain co-wrote “I’ll Be Alright Without You” in 1985, for what would be the fourth single from Journey’s Raised on Radio LP, he had just gone through a divorce. It’s probably the form of music that most Brits are least interested in. It’s not a terribly British sort of sound, Arena Rock. Known in the UK almost exclusively for “Don’t Stop Believin’” – a song about a girl and a boy from a place – South Detroit – that weirdly doesn’t exist.Ī song recorded in 1981 that didn’t make the UK charts until 2009 following its appearance in an episode of X-Factor, (even its appearance in The Sopranos barely registered in the U.K.) and which has since become one of the most downloaded songs ever.
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