Escape

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“Don’t Stop Believin’” wasn’t the biggest single on <i>Escape</i>, or even the second. But the fact that we’re still prepared to hear it anywhere and at any time—grocery store, baseball game, karaoke bar, finales of revered prestige-television series—is a testament to how deeply the song lodged in the cultural imagination. Like The Beatles in the 1960, Led Zeppelin in the 1970, or Nirvana in the 1990, Journey captured their era, but they also transcended it. Listening to <i>Escape</i>, released in 1981, you can hear the blockbuster sound of the early Reagan years—the passion, the hair, the light. But you can also hear the seeds of everything from Bon Jovi to Foo Fighters and Imagine Dragons—that blend of muscle and sensitivity that has defined arena rock for more than four decade. .

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