“Faithfully” by Journey

"Faithfully" is the power ballad Journey carried off the tour bus, the second single from their 1983 album Frontiers, and it came to keyboardist Jonathan Cain almost whole. He jotted the first words on a paper napkin on the bus heading for Saratoga Springs, New York, and finished the song the next day in about half an hour; Neal Schon later said Cain told him the melody arrived in a dream.

Cain's keys set the scene before Steve Perry soars in and Schon's guitar lifts it skyward, with Ross Valory and Steve Smith holding a slow, steady pulse. Kevin Elson and Mike Stone produced. It gave the band a second straight top-twenty hit from Frontiers, and in 2008 Classic Rock's Paul Elliott crowned it the finest power ballad ever made.

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