Lights (song)
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| Single by Journey | ||||||||||
| from the album Infinity | ||||||||||
| Released | August 1978 | |||||||||
| Format | 7" single | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1977 | |||||||||
| Genre | Rock | |||||||||
| Length | 3:09 | |||||||||
| Label | Columbia | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Steve Perry, Neal Schon | |||||||||
| Producer | Roy Thomas Baker | |||||||||
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"Lights" is a song recorded by American rock band Journey and written by Steve Perry and Neal Schon, released in 1978.
[edit] Background and writing
The song is a ballad about Journey's city of origin, San Francisco. It was one of Steve Perry's first Journey songs, and was recorded soon after his joining the band.
Released as a single in 1978, it was originally a minor hit, reaching number 68 on the Billboard Hot 100 at the time.[1] It has, however, become more popular over the years and is now one of Journey's most popular and easily recognizable songs and is often played in Classic Hits/Oldies radio stations. It is frequently played at San Francisco Giants baseball games (including a version led by Perry himself at Game 2 of the 2010 World Series[2]) and the cross-bay Oakland Athletics after-game fireworks starts.
Journey released a live version of the song in 1993 for the Time³ box set.
The song was the last to be played during the Top 40 era of KFRC 610, a legendary San Francisco station, before the flip to a nostalgia/adult standards format in 1986.[3]
KIII-TV of Corpus Christi, Texas used this song during their sign offs in the late 1980s.
This song is also covered by current Journey frontman Arnel Pineda.
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