I would love to do another record.. Surprisingly, he came back on stage and performed with the rock band The Eels in St. Paul, MN. It is when addressing other subjects specifically his past drug use and the possibility of him rejoining Journey that his voice hardens a little and his answers turn more defensive or oblique, or rises as he parries a question with an offhand joke. Then, in 2011, his friend Patty Jenkins, the director of Wonder Woman, showed him a cut of her TV film about breast cancer. Perry started dating Sherrie Swafford in the 1980s during his time with the band Journey. They walk beside us. Moreover, he explains, I live small. Youd think I was writing the best lyric of my life. Its been way too long. After Perry left Journey, Schon and Cain formed the supergroup Bad English with singer John Waite, who had previously worked alongside Cain in pop rock act The Babys. I said: I dont know, but theres something about her smile thats killing me right now. Steve Perry bio. . Im not whining, Im just saying there was a lack of connection to the passion for music I had discovered when I was seven years old. Steve explains that he was captivated by Nash's smile and asked Jenkins to email her and tell her he wanted to take her out. Just three weeks after stunning fans by releasing a video for No Erasin' from his surprise new solo album Traces, Steve Perry is sharing another video from the album. It was a sad, sad night.. Michael was welcomed home by his brother, Kelly Eugene Jones, grandmother, Evelyn C. Nash. But after a gig, Ill probably see you tomorrow after sound-check. He also felt he had done enough. It was the eighties! he says, laughing. including losing my girlfriend a year ago and her wish to hear me sing again" referring to his romance with . It was breaking my heart. "Alejandro" is her "fear of sex" monster. journey. In the new interview, he recalled how, after Nashdied in 2012, he spent three years in serious grieving along with psychological assistance from some professionals, but noted that he had gotten "through that process and I started writing music. Ive got to stop crying at some point. And he said, No, I think if youre smart, youll cherish the grief. I said, But why? He said, Because eventually, believe me, it will start to raise, the bottom will raise, and you wont be able to access it as deeply as you are now. She wrote the lyric about a friend who's partner wanted to keep their fling a secret. Steve Perry has returned to music thanks to a push from his late girlfriend Kellie Nash. Ex-Journey singer Steve Perry recently opened up about his battle with cancer, thankfully revealing to fans that he'll likely be just fine. Do you have her email?, Patty looked at me funny, because she knows that I dont do this. I imagine shed be thrilled with it, and thrilled that youre putting yourself back out there. He met Kellie, a Doctor of Psychology and Cancer survivor while working on a project through his friend . Some are sad, but there are happy songs too songs that rock, theyre joyful, theyre hopeful. I understand that you made a promise to Kellie before she died that you wouldnt keep isolating yourself. I wrote [Most of All] with Randy Goodrum, the same guy that co-wrote Foolish Heart and Oh Sherrie" from Perry's solo debut,Street Talk, he said. As much I missed the lights, as much as I missed the stage, the applause and the adoration of people who were loving the music I was participating in, I had to walk away from it to be okay emotionally on my own without it, he says. I couldnt separate myself from her i wanted to be wherever she was. 170170. Soon afterwards, Ellis called Perry, first offering his sympathies, then a new opportunity an audition with Journey. Steve Perry was born in the Winter of 1949 on Saturday, January 22 in Hanford, California, USA . But you and I are over here., One night, when we were falling asleep, she said: If something was to happen to me, promise me that you wont go back to isolation and make this all for nought. I didnt know how to navigate such a statement. heavy metal Steve perry with his late lover, Kellie Nash, who died in 2012 Source: Thecelebscloset . Journeys profile rose again when Dont Stop Believin, a Top 10 US hit in 1981 and a classic rock radio staple ever since, became more popular than ever, a global anthem, after it was featured in the cult film Monster, the acclaimed TV series The Sopranos and the hit teen show Glee. But then director Patty Jenkins put Journeys Dont Stop Believing in her film Monster. Then, through Jenkins, and purely by chance, he met Kellie Nash. The former Journey frontman disappeared from the pop scene in the 1990s but the new album, Traces, marks his return. And I have found that to be absolutely true., Nash was the inspiration for Perrys new album Traces, but he does not think of this as simply a memorial. This feature originally appeared in Classic Rock 255. "I had done some cool things in my life but I gotta tell you, it dwarfed in comparison to meeting this girl., Steve Perry Reportedly Drops Journey Trademark Claim, Dolly Parton Says Steve Perry Will Sing on Her Upcoming Rock LP, Listen to Steve Perrys New Holiday Song, Maybe This Year, Neal Schon Says Steve Perry Forced Journey Into Partners Contract, Steve Perry Previews New Holiday Song Maybe This Year, Neal Schon Calls Steve Perrys Journey Legal Action Total Crap, Steve Perry Sues Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain Over Journey Songs, How Steve Perry Surprised Stranger Things Remix Artists. The singer credits his new album, Traces, in large part to his late-girlfriend, psychologist Dr. Kellie Nash, who passed away of breast cancer in 2012. Its a late summer evening when Classic Rock catches up with Perry, at home near San Francisco. Again, I didnt play that one to Kellie for the same reasons I just mentioned. But I had no choice except to throw myself into the abyss and go back to my hometown. She was in remission, but it came back, and its in her bones and its in her lungs and shes fighting for her life. So I thought: Im going to forget the whole idea. My plan was to not go back, if Im going to truly be honest with myself. Former Journey lead singer Steve Perry says he left the band because he fell out of love with music and wanted to move forward, he tells Tracy Smith in an . While growing up, she often visited various . I was in an airport, he recalls, and these people went: Hey Steve! And it was Perrys whirlwind romance with Nash and his grief after Nash tragically died of breast cancer a year and a half after they met that made Perry believe in music once more. news Then he started believin again. Well, the days were so long and beautiful and magical like living on a pin together, standing on a pin together. In the fulfillment of the pledge, Perry has returned to music and released a song No Erasin. And I was around a band that went through several divorces in the course of our success. Steve Perry 's white-hot relationship with girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was the stuff of romantic legend in the 1980s. It touches me. He also concedes that he partied too hard in those days. I was going to a professional [therapist], and he said to me, Steve, I want you to cherish the grief. I said, Im tired of crying, man. In the end, Perrys long-awaited return to music is a cause for celebration. Patty told me: I put real people who have cancer on the set with my actors. And as the camera panned across all these people, I said: Whos that? She said: Its Kellie Nash, a friend of mine. Yes, Patty was doing this show [about cancer survivors] for the Lifetime network called Five. "It was the eighties!" he says, laughing. All rights reserved. It was something I had not done in 25 years. In the context of Perrys career, Traces has a style and tone more reminiscent of his first solo record, Street Talk, than of his work with Journey. Were there early, unfinished versions of this music that Kellie got to hear? I walked out, and I swear from my heart, I had zero expectations. He fell in love with Kellie Nash despite her being a cancer patient. She was looking at the arc of her whole life and the possibility that she may not make it had to have some goddamn meaning. How did you deal with the grief when she passed away in December 2012? Working together, the duo fell in love with each other. For Perry this is a deeply personal story, but he says hes comfortable discussing it in the public domain. This is somebody else whos lived quite a few years away from it all. Menu. Movies. I think it would make this all for naught. And I thought, All for naught? He explains how he rediscovered his love of music. According to Steve Perry, the motivation behind his musical comeback was fueled by a relationship he had in the 2000's and 2010's. Steve Perry described the relationship he had with Kellie Nash as the deepest love he has ever felt. She used to hum them around the house, and that was some external affirmation, like, Maybe I still know what Im doing, writing music. As they say, love has no boundary and no limits. Steve Perry. What was that conversation? I look at it like a train with two tracks. Perry had to meet her, so he asked Patty to set it up for them to have coffee or lunch. As Perry says now: I had lost that deep passion in my heart for the inner joy of songwriting and singing. Lead vocalist of Journey from 1978 to 1997, he released nine albums, including the 1996 platinum album Trial By Fire. This soulful rock ballad starts as an anti-love song partially inspired by the death of Steve Perry's girlfriend Kellie Nash in 2012. He asked for his email and contacted her. Perry said, "One night she said that, 'If something was to ever happen to me, promise that you won't go back into isolation, for I think that would make this all for naught.' I had to make the. classic rock Perry says he made Nash a promise before she passed away: he wouldn't let losing her destroy him. So, I flew myself out to St. Paul, and they were setting up soundcheck and there I was. The woman was Kellie Nash, a psychologist who had undergone treatment. She got to hear rough sketches of a lot of the record, but I kept those two completely secret from her., Perry also discussed the balance of tempos on the album. hard rock Freelance writer for Classic Rock since 2005, Paul Elliott has worked for leading music titles since 1985, including Sounds, Kerrang!, MOJO and Q. Journey had always been Neal Schons band, but it was Perry who took control of the 1986 album Raised On Radio, on which the singers soul influences dominated and the guitarists role was diminished. For the man whose richly expressive, high-arcing voice helped Journey to become one of the biggest rock groups in America in the 80s, the now 69-year-olds solo album, Traces, is a surprise comeback. "Were Still Here" Yes, but you know this is not the guy who left Journey. He had also made and saved enough money never to have to work again. We talked about her cancer, and she said: This is some nasty stuff. September 24, 2008 Steve Perry made a telephone appearance on the Dennis Miller radio show. The lyrics werent even there; she was just mumbling the melody and the groove of it. At that moment I didnt know what to do. I walked away with no ideas of returning. The couple met for the first time after his friend, Patty Jenkins put their clips together in a short video clip. "I said to Patty: 'Do you have. It had been so long since I opened up my soul to that. Former Journey singer Steve Perry, though very much single at present, has awesome romantic memories with his loved ones in the past. His solo debut 'Oh Sherrie' was written in honor of his real-life loveSwafford. Journey singer Steve Perry has just revealed that he had to have surgery to remove a cancerous mole from his face just a few months after losing the love of his life to brain cancer. Nash made the former Journey frontman, 69, promise before she died of breast cancer in December. Theyre asking questions from like 35 years ago, which just is such a waste of time; life has moved on for everyone. Steve Perry Makes His Return The impetus for Perry's musical revitalization initially stemmed from time spent back in Perry's hometown of Hanford, Calif., but, more recently, from falling. Lyric about a friend of mine a late summer evening when Classic rock catches up with Perry, first his. 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