LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 23, 2020…FORTY YEARS AGO JOURNEY RELEASED THEIR SIXTH ALBUM ‘DEPARTURE’. THE ALBUM HAD AN EDGIER SOUND THAN PREVIOUS JOURNEY ALBUMS AND WAS THE BAND’S MOST SUCCESSFUL TO DATE, HITTING AS HIGH AS #8 ON BILLBOARD’S TOP TEN ALBUM CHART. THE ALBUM’S SUCCESS WAS FUELED BY THE SUCCESS OF THE SINGLE ‘ANYWAY YOU WANT IT’ AND ‘WALKS LIKE A LADY.’ ‘DEPARTURE’ IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT MARKED THE LAST FULL TIME STUDIO APPEARANCE OF FOUNDING MEMBER GREGG ROLIE. ROLIE HAD DECIDED TO LEAVE THE BAND (ON GOOD TERMS)AND LEFT AFTER EVEN HELPING TO HAND-PICK HIS SUCCESSOR JONATHAN CAIN, WHO WAS AT THE TIME A MEMBER OF THE BABY’S
I’M GOING TO TAKE YOU TO THE “WAY-BACK MACHINE” AND RETURN TO 1980 WITH JOURNEY’S VIDEO FOR ‘ANYWAY YOU WANT IT’