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The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast — Back Label - 1 Take, 1 Payphone, 1 Song That Refused to Die
Not scored yet4m·2026-07-08·Arts Culture

Back Label - 1 Take, 1 Payphone, 1 Song That Refused to Die

The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast · 361

In 1980, Jonathan Cain stood at a payphone on Sunset Boulevard, broke and ready to quit music for good. His father's answer became the seed of the biggest sing-along anthem in rock history. In this Back Label Story, Forrest Kelly traces how that phrase aged in a notebook for a year before Cain joined Journey and the…

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