Steve Perry

Looking back at 12 original studio albums, released as a solo artist and with Journey.

The fake Perry told the victim he "needed a woman in his life."

Sherrie Swafford rose to fame as the subject of the Top 5 hit "Oh Sherrie" and its music video.

He hasn't mounted a solo tour in 30 years – and last performed a full-length concert with Journey in 1987.

"One thing that people need to know is that Perry can still sing his ass off," collaborator Trev Lukather tells UCR.

He says performing with the Effect "brought out a vocal experience in me from years ago!"

We found big hair and even bigger hooks, backstage shenanigans and long-gone girlfriends, cartoon beetles and (yes) air-keyboards.

Co-writer Randy Goodrum calls this a "perfect record," but nothing came easy.

They'd never had a charting single before he arrived.

How did Steve Perry react to the Miraculous Love Kids of Afghanistan's rendition?