Journey

Genres:	Music Videos & Concerts • Pop / Rock • Soundtracks
Descriptive "tags":	classic rock • rock • 80s • hard rock • progressive rock
Decades Active:	1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	BBC Music • Facebook • IMDb • MySpace • Official Homepage • Wikipedia • YouTube

Biography

This US rock outfit was formed in 1973 by ex-Santana members Neal Schon (27 February 1954, San Mateo, California, USA; guitar) and Gregg Rolie (b. 1948; keyboards), with the assistance of Ross Valory (b. 2 February 1949, San Francisco, California, USA; bass, ex-Frumious Bandersnatch), George Tickner (rhythm guitar, vocals; ex-Frumious Bandersnatch) and Prairie Prince (b. 7 May 1950, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; drums, ex-Tubes). On New Year’s Eve the same year, they made their live debut in front of 10, 000 people at San Francisco’s Winterland. The following day they played to 100, 000 at an open-air festival in Hawaii. In February 1974 Prince returned to the Tubes and was replaced by veteran session drummer Aynsley Dunbar (b. 10 January 1946, Liverpool, England). They initially specialized in jazz rock, complete with extended and improvised solo spots, a style much in evidence on their first three albums for Columbia Records. In April 1975, after...

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