‘Lights’ – Journey

Writers: Steve Perry and Neal Schon=left>

Producers: Roy Thomas Baker=left>

Recorded: 1977=left>

Released: January 1978=left>

When Journey got together to record Infinity, a slew of band members had passed through the doors. Tubes drummer Prairie Prince started to work with Journey before deciding to remain in the Tubes. Veteran British drummer Ansley Dunbar then joined up, bringing a resume that included stints with John Mayall, Jeff Beck, the Mothers Of Invention, Lou Reed, and David Bowie.=left>

Guitarist George Tickner and vocalist Robert Fleischman also departed just prior to Infinity.=left>

Steve Perry, Fleischman's replacement, was suggested to the band by a Columbia executive when Fleischman got the boot. Perry had been repeatedly asking the group to bring him in.=left>

The group got their name in a San Francisco radio station contest that asked listeners to come up with one. After much debate, Journey came out the winner.=left>

Infinity was the group's fourth album, and the first with Perry. It became the band's first multi-platinum effort, with sales in excess of three million copies.=left>

“Lights” had only moderate success as a single, reaching Number 68 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. Two other singles, “Wheel In The Sky” and “Anytime,” peaked at Numbers 57 and 83 respectively.=left>

The true secret of Infinity, which lasted for 123 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at Number 21, was the group's seemingly never-ending headlining tour of 171 cities in North America and Europe.=left>