I had remembered the girl in this video being particularly hot. I think it was mostly her braless state. The lighting is spectacular, too - all soft-focus and smoke filled. Those were the days - when music was overproduced and a dude who looked like a Jim Henson rendition of Enya could be a rock star. I used to use three albums to ring out PAs and get 'em dialed - you know, those discs that you know really well, you know exactly what they're supposed to sound like, every bad punch, every overharmonized vocal? One of them was FSOL's ISDN. Another was Massive Attack's Mezzanine. The goths and rivetheads would sort of tolerate those. The third drove them to distraction - Journey's Greatest Hits. Thanks.
Back in the day our local goth night rented out a gay bar on Wednesdays, because it was a goth night medium-sized southern city and that's what they could get. The regulars and staff were very amused by us, but friendly enough given that we were invading their space once a week. Someone on the city council really didn't like them existing, though, and they'd loose their liquor license if they gave the city any excuse, so they needed to get everyone out by legally mandated closing time. Their solution to shooing everyone out without being rude about it was to have the bartender do Sisters of Mercy covers on the piano in the style of Elton John. After the first couple of times everyone stopped staring at him dumbfounded and started heading for the door.
Apparently, that was Sherri, his girlfriend at the time: http://www.journey-tribute.com/journey/resources/articles/dick_clark.html S.P.: Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed. And I don't know where it came from, just the words: "Oh Sherrie" came out and the "Hold on", hold on". That's all we had for the entire chorus. We had no lyrics, no nothing. We had a bunch of mumbles on tape, certain vowel sounds and things, but that sort of started the whole idea. And next thing I know the song was almost finishing itself because it was such a personal song. I really needed someone with great lyric insight like Randy Goodrum had and he helped me finish the lyrics on it.D.C: In this spotlight lets focus our attention on the making of Steve Perry's biggest solo hit. It was written in 1984 by his girlfriend at the time Sherrie Swafford (--transcriber's note: spelling of names may not be correct). Steve says "Oh Sherrie" was the result of a song-writing jam session between three writers: himself, keyboardist Craig Krampf & Bill Cuomo, a man who crafted the synthesizer sound on "Betty Davis Eyes"--the one by Kim Karnes. The three of them had begun working on the song at midnight and ended up going on until 5 o'clock in the morning. And interestingly enough Steve says that when they began, Sherrie herself was in the room with them. But not for long.