![]() We had a TV in there, and two bars, just for the band. “For the Journey tour, we used to travel in Clark Gable’s Cadillac,” beams Newell, “which had been refurbished by Rolls Royce. I never believed in short-changing people, and still don’t.” He shrugs: “ Journey was recorded with an orchestra and choir, so that’s what I toured with. I always knew that Journey as a tour would lose money, but I also believed it’d help sell the albums, which it did, and it undoubtedly sold far more than it would have if I hadn’t toured.” You sold records off the back of these tours. “Back then, you toured to ‘advertise’ your music. “It didn’t make me stressed at all,” Wakeman insists. The Royal Festival Hall gave Wakeman a taste for the epic, and from there, Journey rolled across the planet, choir and strings attached: a whirlwind of logistics and luxuries that fairly haemorrhaged cash. ![]()
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