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From One of the Greatest Bands in History Comes a Reminder to Never Give Up Hope. In this long-awaited memoir, complete with color photographs, songwriter and keyboardist Jonathan Cain takes us on an odyssey from center stage with Journey when all America was listening to songs like "Don't Stop Believin',"…

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1 author picked Don't Stop Believin' as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This autobiography of the keyboardist of the rock band Journey is so inspirational that my words can hardly do justice to it.

As a child, Jonathan Cain came close to dying in a famous tragedy. As an adult, he came close to giving up. But one simple piece of inspirational advice from his father let to success and one of the most popular songs in history.

In Chicago in 1958 a boy ran out of his school to escape what became the worst school fire in history. Questioning why he survived and almost 100 others died, this story is the…

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