most difficult steve perry songs to cover

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Sign up for The New Statesman’s newsletters Tick the boxes of the newsletters you would like to receive. He’d been nursing his dying mother, and considered retraining as a neurologist. The first time Perry quit the band was at the height of their fame, in 1987. He must have a high “tenor altino”, reaching F#2 to A5, with a tone somewhere between Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin. Any Journey singer needs to sound exactly like Steve Perry, and that is not easy. The single component they’ve spent three decades cyclically seeking to replace is the voice of their frontman, Steve Perry, who came and went, and came and went – then disappeared. Journey are responsible for “Don’t Stop Believin’”, the most-downloaded song written in the 20th century. Find a new frontman who steals a bit of the limelight for himself. Go out under a different name (“unrewarding”).

It wasn’t that Brian didn’t sympathise with the pressures on a middle-aged rock band burdened with touring millions of dollars’ worth of hits when their original frontman was indisposed. The American rock band Journey had fired another lead singer: 41-year-old Jeff Scott Soto had been erased from the group’s website – shed, Brian observed in his blog, like a used pair of boots.

In the small hours of 14 June 2007, the Queen guitarist Brian May sat worrying at his computer.

Most difficult steve perry songs to cover