Journey has launched “United We Stand,” the newest single from their upcoming album Freedom. You may take heed to the track under.
The mid-tempo observe is traditional Journey, with Neal Schon’s repeating guitar melody anchoring the track and Arnel Pineda’s impassioned, hovering vocals bolstered by wealthy backing harmonies and dramatic horns as he sings, “United we stand / Divided we fall / Simply maintain on to me, woman / And collectively we are able to face all of it.”
“United We Stand” is the fifth track launched from Freedom, following “Do not Give Up on Us,” “Let It Rain,” “You Acquired the Better of Me” and “The Means We Used to Be.” The upcoming LP, which arrives July 8, will mark Journey’s first album in over a decade and the sixteenth studio album of their illustrious profession.
Freedom was nearly the title of a distinct Journey launch. Throughout a dialog with UCR, Schon revealed the band’s late supervisor, Herbie Herbert, had pitched the title for his or her 1986 album, which was ultimately known as Raised on Radio. “He needed to name Raised on Radio, Freedom. Steve Perry didn’t need that and he fought him profusely,” Schon recalled. “So Steve ended up getting Raised on Radio. Herbie needed to stick with a one-word title.”
Greater than 30 years later, Schon and the group revisited the title and realized it had taken on new that means. “We had simply gone by means of this entire lawsuit with the ex-band members. We went by means of this entire divorce from previous attorneys, previous managers, previous accountants,” he defined. “It turned extra evident to me that the phrase ‘freedom’ meant a number of various things to me.”
“Not solely was it one thing that Herbie needed to do a very long time in the past, however [it represented] all the things that we simply went by means of,” the guitarist continued. “I felt like freedom is what I need to learn about. That turned our new precise LLC as properly for our enterprise. We simply figured, let’s tie all of it in. All of it is smart.”
Coincidentally, the title “United We Stand” has additionally beforehand appeared in Journey’s orbit. In 1998, the identical yr Perry left Journey for the second (and seemingly last) time, the singer launched a tune additionally known as “United We Stand” on the soundtrack to the animated movie Quest for Camelot.
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