How Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” Took Its Own Advice

Jon Clemence
4 min readApr 27, 2022

Journey was well on its way to becoming a household name in 1981. They were approaching superstardom and working on their seventh studio album, Escape.

Little did they know at the time that a recent lineup change would lead to the creation of their most iconic song.

Answering the call

A few days ago, fellow Medium writer Steve Devine wrote an article discussing the top songs from the year he was born. In that article, he challenged a number of people, including me, to do…

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Jon Clemence

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