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"These guys needed a little break," Steve Perry said of the Journey members' solo LPs.

Steve Perry passes on a little street talk

    Journey's lead vocalist Steve Perry has debuted his first solo album, Street Talk, which is somewhat of a departure from the work he's done with his regular band.
    While he emphasised that he's not leaving Journey, it seems apparent after just a few minutes of discussion that Perry has found a new kind of enthusiasm.
    "It seems like I've been waiting all of my life for this," said Perry. "The solo album is real pressure - especially if you produce it, as I did with mine - but it was a challenge I wanted."
    But Perry added that he's not sick of Journey. "I think that Journey has been together a long time and I think like anything else, the guys need a little break from each other. Everybody's doing their own solo projects - let's face it, we don't want to see each other continually every day and meet for breakfast while we're off the road.
    "I am sure that I had a lot to do with Journey taking off," he says honestly. "There was an identity there. Before, the band had an identity, but there wasn't a strong vocal identity."
    Does he think he's a great singer?
    "No . . . sometimes I don't think I'm very good at all; it's funny, sometimes I enjoy listening to some of the things that I've done, and sometimes I can't even listen to them. Just now, I like the work I've done on the solo album the most, because it's more of a testimony of expression for me."