‘Where are you?’ Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain asks. ‘ London ,’ I reply. ‘That’s a sensible city,’ he responds.
‘Do you think?’ I ask sceptically, thinking about the sky-high rent prices, verging on £8 pints, and the generally miserable June we’re having. ‘But you’ve just got to work on your border a little bit like us,’ he adds. It turns out Cain, 74, who is the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for Journey , the band behind uplifting rock anthem Don’t Stop Believin’, is a staunch Trump supporter.
He explained: ‘I thought, “What happened to London, oh my god.” But you know, the culture absorbs it all. I see all the different cultures coming in and absorbing it all.
‘I think London is a big enough city to diffuse it all. But still, it’s noticeable, from the 80s.’ What he means by ‘it’ is unclear – but open to interpretation.
‘Who knows though. Maybe London needed shaking up. It’s still a great town,’ he adds diplomatically, before: ‘Go London!’ I was going to write about his 80s rockstar memories, Journey’s big UK tour this year, and their hit song (which is a banger) Don’t Stop Believin’, which has been named the Biggest Song of All Time by Forbes.
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‘It’s been a long time for Europe,’ Cain said, explaining how they exploded in the UK in 1981 but didn’t get over here for concerts much, so their fanbase suffered as a result. It wasn’t until just after Steve Augeri joined the band as Perry’s repl.
