Journey's huge success was always based on lyrical ballads such as Don't Stop Believin', Any Way You Want It, Faithfully, Open Arms, Separate Ways and Wheel In The Sky. Journey's comeback was marked with successful album Trial By Fire (1996). There is no surprise the break up followed until 1995, when Steve Perry agreed to rejoin the band. The band gathered in 1986 to record Raised On Radio, but, in fact, musicians were spending more time on their solo projects than on Journey. Following it, documentary about the band Frontiers And Beyond was released, which turned out to underline first period of Journey's history. In spite of all criticism, Journey's next album Frontiers (1983) continued their commercial success. Rolling Stone magazine wrote: 'Journey was a dead end for San Francisco area rock'. At the same time, some people were blaming Journey for becoming pop band. After Infinity followed Evolution (1979), Departure (1980) and, finally, Escape (1981), which became nine times platinum. From that point, the band's popularity started to grow simultaneously with their moving towards pop rock music. Perry's appearance and transition to a more popular style resulted in Infinity album, which was released in 1978 and became platinum. That is how Steve Perry joined the band – his clean, tenor voice became a huge part of Journey's success. At last, Columbia Records ordered them to change music style and also hire new vocalist. But their first efforts, such as Look Into The Future (1976) and Next (1977), did not gain huge success – Journey members even had to take singing lessons to improve their state. At first they served as a backup group for established artists, but quickly abandoned this status with developing their own style, something between jazz and fusion. Journey's history started in 1973 when musicians who accompanied Carlos Santana decided to establish their own band and moved to San Francisco. With fourteen albums released, 100 million disks sold and songs contributed as soundtracks nearly for everything from movies to advertisements and sport events, Journey can be called one of the most relevant rock bands.

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