Artist: JOURNEY
Album: ESCAPE RE-ISSUE (CD)

Release date: 1981/ 2006
Media type: CD

Journey's seventh studio album (and eighth overall), Escape (sometimes written E5C4P3), was released in July 1981.

Escape was the band's first album with new keyboardist Jonathan Cain who had replaced founding keyboardist Gregg Rolie who had left the band at the end of 1980. The album was co-produced by Kevin Elson and one-time Queen engineer Mike Stone, who also engineered the album.

With three hit singles out of "Don't Stop Believing", "Who's Crying Now" and "Open Arms" plus rock radio staples like "Stone in Love" and the album's title cut, Escape became Journey's biggest selling album yet, and remains one of their most popular and best-reviewed works to date.

The album has been certified 9x Platinum by RIAA since its July 31, 1981 release* (11/14/94; only Greatest Hits, at 15x, has sold more copies).

Highest chart position: #1 on the Billboard album chart where it stayed for a week dethroning Stevie Nicks' Bella Donna from #1 in September 1981.
An Atari 2600 game, Journey Escape, was made based on the album.

All tracks written by Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry, and Neal Schon, except as noted †, written by Cain and Perry, and ‡ written by Matthew Schon, Neal Schon, Perry, and Cain.

TRACKLIST:

01 "Don't Stop Believing" – 4:10
02 "Stone in Love" – 4:25
03 "Who's Crying Now" – 5:01 †
04 "Keep on Runnin'" – 3:39
05 "Still They Ride" – 3:49
06 "Escape" – 5:16
07 "Lay it Down" – 4:13
08 "Dead or Alive" – 3:20
09 "Mother, Father" – 5:28 ‡
10 "Open Arms" – 3:18 †

Tracks 11-14 are bonus tracks on the 2006 CD reissue.

"La Raza del Sol" - 3:26 †
"Don't Stop Believing" (live) – 4:19
"Who's Crying Now" (live) – 5:43 †
"Open Arms" (live) – 3:22 †

LINE-UP:

Steve Perry - Lead Vocals
Neal Schon - Guitar, Vocals
Steve Smith - Drums
Jonathan Cain - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Ross Valory - Bass, Vocals