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1. Let's start with the basics. This was the band's first album to feature Steve Perry on lead vocals, although Gregg Rollie did sing lead on a few of the songs. Released in 1978, this album has some of their concert staples including "Wheel in the Sky". Do you know this name of this album?
2. This album was the first one to feature Jonathan Cain on keyboards, who co-wrote many of the tracks. It was produced by Mike Stone and Kevin Elson. The album cover features a scarab beetle breaking out of what appears to be an egg or planet.
3. Released in 1980 on Columbia Records, this album would be the last studio album with Gregg Rollie as a full time member of the band. It did contain one of their better known hits, "Any Way you Want It", which was featured in the movie "Caddyshack". Neal Schon, the lead guitarist, did get a chance to share lead vocals on one track with Steve Perry, "People and Places".
4. "Journey" changed personnel prior to the release of this album, which featured Steve Smith on drums (instead of Aynsley Dunbar). Produced by Roy Thomas Baker, the first track off the album was the instrumental "Majestic". The album had eleven tracks in all. The back cover of the album shows all five members dressed in attire that truly looks like the 1970s!
5. Originally released as a live two album set in 1981, this album had a total of 17 songs. It did have one new studio song called "The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love"). Produced by Kevin Elson, the album was dedicated to Bon Scott, the former lead singer of AC/DC.
6. This was the last studio album to feature Steve Perry on lead vocals. Released in 1996, it was produced by Kevin Shirley. The beetle scarab made a return for the album cover along with a baby in a boat holding a rope. The lineup for this album had the same members as their many of their previous albums including "Escape" and "Frontiers".
7. Let's go way back in time; tell me the name of the band's very first album released in 1975. The album did not do well sales-wise. Steve Perry is nowhere to be found on this album as it was a few years before he joined the band. The few vocals on the album were sung by Gregg Rollie.
8. As the follow up to the immensely successful album "Escape", this album spawned several hit songs. Released in 1983, the album had ten tracks including "Faithfully" and "Separate Ways". The same two men who produced "Escape", Mike Stone and Kevin Elson, returned as producers for this album as well.
9. Journey released a three CD box set in 1992. Complete with a 60 page color booklet, the box set contains several of their hits as well as some less well-known music the band made prior to Steve Perry joining the band. The artwork, once again, shows the beetle scarab, this time breaking out of the ground with some type of drill bit attached to one end.
10. Although the band continues to release albums and tour the world, it does so without Steve Perry. Can you name the first full-length studio album the band released after Steve Perry's departure from the band? The album was produced by Kevin Shirley.
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