On April 16, 1983, Journey released the second single from their eighth studio album Frontiers, a track written by keyboardist Jonathan Cain called "Faithfully."
Hard to believe it's been 40 years since that album, and song, was released into the world, and if not for a dream Cain had, we probably wouldn't have had that track at all.
Yes, Cain says the melody for "Faithfully" came to him in a dream.
Guitarist Neal Schon said in the liner notes to their 1992 box set Time Cubed, "He (Cain) told me he got the melody out of a dream. I wish something like that would happen to me."
In an interview with Songfacts, Cain revealed, "I don't think I've written a song so quickly. I mean, it was probably a half an hour. I'd never had a song come to me so quickly that it was anointed, supernatural. Literally, in 30 minutes I had written that song.
"I had the napkin in my pocket and I put it on the piano. I had a big grand piano there by the orchestra. I played through it and I thought, 'Man, this is good.'"
"Faithfully" has been a staple of Journey's set since its release, and it made major impacts in the music industry almost immediately.
According to Ultimate Classic Rock, Bryan Adams, while opening for Journey on the "Frontiers Tour" in 1983, wrote his hit "Heaven," of which he says was "heavily influenced" by "Faithfully."
And Prince, upon completing the recording of "Purple Rain," was so worried it sounded too similar to "Faithfully," phoned Cain and asked him to listen to it.
Cain assured Prince that the songs only shared the same four chords.
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