I Don't Believe It
There's a story going around that Steve Perry of Journey wouldn't let David Chase use the song "Don't Stop Believin'" until three days before The Sopranos finale. I don't buy it--that's cutting it way too close.
The show cut to black after we heard the words "Don't stop..." Seems to me if Perry (does he even control the rights?) said no, Chase would have just called Fleetwood Mac to get what he wanted.
PS For the first time in my life, I listened closely (alas) to the lyric of a Journey song. "Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit"? There is no south Detroit. What does he mean, Windsor?
posted by LAGuy @ 12:08 AM
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Steve may have influenced by the made-up geography in the 1973(?) hit by Paper Lace- "The Night Chicago Died" which described Al Capone's war with the Windy City's finest and apparently took place beneath the surface of Lake Michigan ("... the old East Side")
Then there's the 1969 movie Krakatoa, East of Java--it's actually west of Java.
I think the key line in that Journey song is "Heaven's just a funky moose."
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