JOURNEY SET TO RELEASE FIRST STUDIO ALBUM OF ALL NEW SONGS IN OVER A DECADE THIS SUMMER
26th April 2022As one of the worldâs most beloved rock bands, Journey continues to create new music and thrill audiences night after night in sold out arenas worldwide in conjunction with AEG as their promoter.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, Journey have 25 gold and platinum albums, including the fifteen-million selling Greatest Hits collection, with total sales adding up to 80 million records around the world.Â
Emerging from the pandemic with a supercharged new studio line-up, today, the members of Journey unleash the first single âYou Got The Best Of Meâ off their forthcoming studio album, Freedom – due out July 8 via Frontiers Music Srl – available for pre-order HERE.Â
âYou Got The Best Of Meâ will be followed this summer by an epic, fifteen-track set of new original songs that brings back the grand scale of the groupâs greatest moments, along with updated and bold new directions and sounds.Â
âI wanted kind of a punky rendition of âAny Way You Want Itââ, says the groupâs founding member, guitarist, songwriter, and producer Neal Schon about the single. âI usually don’t go in saying I’m going to look for something like that, but then it just came to me, like âWheel in the Skyâ did years ago. It just kind of flew out of my mouth.â
While the forthcoming album was made with visions of arena and stadium stages, it started from humble beginnings. In 2020, as COVID swept the globe, Schon was stuck at home like the rest of us. âDuring the pandemic, there wasnât much to do,â he says. âI spent a lot of time in my little studio at home, learning how to play keyboards and looping. Some of those ideas ended up being songs. So it kind of came out of nowhere.â
LISTEN TO THE NEW SINGLE âYOU GOT THE BEST OF MEâ HERE
As the bandâs legend continues to grow larger and their touring gets bigger, Freedom will be the first album of new material to be released in eleven years, since 2011âs Eclipse, and in addition to longtime keyboard player and primary lyricist Jonathan Cain and vocalist Arnel Pineda, one more member was recruited for the upcoming album â bassist extraordinaire Randy Jackson, who had played on Journeyâs 1986 album Raised on Radio.
Freedom tracklistingÂ
Together We Run
Donât Give Up On Us
Still Believe In Love
You Got The Best Of MeÂ
Live To Love Again
The Way We Used To Be
Come Away With Me
After Glow
Let It Rain
Holdin On
All Day and All Night
Donât Go
United We Stand
Life Rolls On
Beautiful As You Are
*Freedom will be released by Frontiers Records in Europe, United Kingdom and Japan. BMG will release the album for the rest of the world.Â
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
4.27 – Bridgestone Arena – Nashville, TNÂ
4.28 – Spectrum Center – Charlotte, NCÂ
4.30 – Schottenstein Center – Columbus, OH
5.02 – Allstate Arena – Rosemont, IL
5.04 – Van Andel Arena – Grand Rapids, MI
5.05 – Gainbridge Fieldhouse – Indianapolis, IN
5.07 – Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse – Cleveland, OHÂ
5.09 – Capital One Arena – Washington, D.C.Â
5.11 – XL Center – Hartford, CT
5.13 – Scotiabank Arena – Toronto, ON
5.16 – Videotron Centre – Quebec City, QC
7.15 – Resorts World Theatre – Las Vegas, NV*
7.16 – Resorts World Theatre – Las Vegas, NV*
7.22 – Resorts World Theatre – Las Vegas, NV*
7.23 – Resorts World Theatre – Las Vegas, NV*
*with symphony orchestraÂ
For ticket info click HERE
Journey and AEG have announced four exclusive Las Vegas show dates featuring special symphony orchestra performances at the new, state-of-the-art Resorts World Theatre.Â
Tickets for the special engagement are on sale now. For more info click here.Â
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