Journey has launched “United We Stand,” the newest single from their upcoming album Freedom. You may hearken to the track beneath.
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, lady / 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 Received 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 referred to as Raised on Radio. “He wished 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 wished 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 which means. “We had simply gone via this entire lawsuit with the ex-band members. We went via this entire divorce from outdated attorneys, outdated managers, outdated accountants,” he defined. “It grew to become extra evident to me that the phrase ‘freedom’ meant a number of various things to me.”
“Not solely was it one thing that Herbie wished to do a very long time in the past, however [it represented] every part that we simply went via,” the guitarist continued. “I felt like freedom is what I wish to find out about. That grew to become our new precise LLC as properly for our enterprise. We simply figured, let’s tie all of it in. All of it is sensible.”
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 closing) time, the singer launched a tune additionally referred to as “United We Stand” on the soundtrack to the animated movie Quest for Camelot.
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