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"Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" is a song by Journey from their album ''Frontiers'' and released as a single on January 5, 1983. It peaked at #8 for six consecutive weeks on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, and spent four weeks at #1 on the Top Tracks chart.〔Whitburn, Joel (2004). ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits'', 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 335.〕 To accompany the song on MTV, the band shot its first-ever concept video. It was a difficult experience for a variety of reasons, and the resulting clip has been named as one of the worst videos ever. This song was used in the 2010 Disney film ''Tron: Legacy'', the sequel to the 1982 Academy Award-nominated film ''Tron'', and also was used in the ''Journey'' arcade game produced by now-defunct Midway Games—the same company who manufactured both the ''Tron'' arcade game and its sequel, ''Discs of Tron''. This song also appears as the mobile phone ringtone of Carl Allen, the main character in the 2008 film ''Yes Man''. ==Background and writing== The song was written in 1982 during the ''Escape'' tour. It is not certain exactly when, or the first time it was performed live. Some sources will claim the 1982 Day on the Green concert, where singer Steve Perry told the crowd, "We just wrote this song about two weeks ago", as the first performance. But bootleg recordings exist of performances at least a month earlier at Chicago's Rosemont Horizon, where Perry also says the song was two weeks old. There were some minor differences in the lyrics on this live debut compared to the final version found on ''Frontiers''. In a 2008 interview, guitarist Neal Schon recalled the first time it was played live: "Usually we don't write songs that far in advance of an album", says Jonathan Cain, the band's keyboardist. "But on that occasion, Steve () and I were just working an idea backstage and it all came together. He was working on a bass and I had a guitar, and we just worked out the melody that night and the lyrics the next afternoon. Sometimes you can get lucky and have a song fall together like that." Schon says the song is, like many other songs by the band, "Motown mixed with R&B and blues ... that's pretty much where 'Separate Ways' is coming from. It's got a heavier guitar than an R&B song, but I think that's what makes it sound like Journey."〔 Cain said the same thing in 1983: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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