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Journey – Any Way You Want It (3:22)

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Any Way You Want It is a popular song performed by Journey released on the album Departure as the opening track, as a single in 1980 and was rerecorded with Arnel Pineda and Deen Castronovo for their 2008 album Revelation. The song was written by frontman Steve Perry and guitarist Neal Schon. It peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The band often plays it to close their concerts. It appears on all four of the band’s live albums (Captured, Greatest Hits Live, Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour, and Revelation on DVD). The song was named the 80th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.

Since its release, the song has continued to infiltrate public consciousness due to its use in television advertisements by popular brands such as Heinz, McDonald’s, Ford and Samsung. It has been used in films such as Caddyshack and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and was covered in the episode “Journey” of the musical TV series Glee in a mash-up with another Journey song, Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’.

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According to cowriter Steve Perry, the song was heavily influenced by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy and more particularly by bassist leader Phil Lynott. In July 1979, Journey was touring with Thin Lizzy across the United States when Lynott, Perry and Schon decided to share rhyme scheme exercises during a hanging out in Miami. The “basic” work on “the guitar-vocal-guitar-vocal interchange thing that happened between Phil and his lyrics and the guitarist and his arrangements, inspired the Any Way You Want It sorta give and take thing.
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  • Greatest Hits
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  • Journey's Greatest Hits
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  • 100 Hits of the 80's - Volume 2
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  • Essential Rock - Definitive Rock Classics And…
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  • shazzaroo1980

    Amazin voice!! Love this song

    Thursday morning

  • giggleloop1

    Baby, hold tight!!;O)

    9 days ago

  • version3point1

    @foobargeek: Yeah – that was a pretty deep episode. Had the same moment.

    13 days ago

  • cityofchampyinz

    Steve's voice + Neal's guitar = AWESOME!

    17 days ago

  • kemp678

    She loves to laugh...she loves to sing :o) :o) YEAH she does! :o) :o)

    19 days ago

  • paradrome

    Epic... Steve Perry! <3

    21 days ago

  • foobargeek

    HOUSE M.D. I cried when Wilson laughed.

    21 days ago

  • jc3usa

    High School & The Arcade playing Galga!

    last month

  • gdcman

    Caddyshack!

    last month

  • dechrisi

    i love the lead guitar in this track...but mostly i love journey^^

    last month

  • wammywaffles

    great

    last month

  • n1cks28

    Any way you want it !!

    March 2012

  • Rockinfreddy

    Passt zum Frühling...

    March 2012

  • sirthorty

    JOURNEY.....love these guys

    March 2012

  • hairmetalfan63

    Love this song!

    March 2012

  • bianca_lg_xx

    <3 love it

    March 2012

  • shep_shepherd

    Who cares? Let's dance!

    March 2012

  • Pfaelzerwald

    Wearing my journey tee today

    March 2012

  • clashingnotes

    love love love

    February 2012

  • r-iman

    Classic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just a great song from a great voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    February 2012
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