Legendary Bay Area band unleashes first single from new album

“You Got the Best of Me" is the first single from "Freedom," the first studio album of new material from Journey in over a decade.

Journey has just released the first single from its forthcoming new album.

The track — “You Got the Best of Me” — can be streamed/downloaded through Amazon, Apple, Spotify and other music sites. The single hails from “Freedom,” the Bay Area classic rock band’s first studio album of all new material in more than a decade. The album is due out July 8 via BMG. Fans can preorder the album here.

“I wanted kind of a punky rendition of ‘Any Way You Want It’” Journey guitarist Neal Schon says about the new single. “I usually don’t go in saying I’m going to look for something like that, but then it just came to me, like ‘Wheel in the Sky’ did years ago. It just kind of flew out of my mouth.”

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame act, which has 25 gold and platinum albums to its credit, performed a big hometown show in March before a full house at Chase Center in San Francisco. Toto was also on the bill.

Read our concert review of the Journey and Toto show here.

Here’s the track listing for “Freedom”:

“Together We Run”

“Don’t Give Up On Us”

“Still Believe In Love”

“You Got the Best of Me”

“Live to Love Again”

“The Way We Used to Be”

“Come Away With Me”

“After Glow”

“Let It Rain”

“Holdin On”

“All Day and All Night”

“Don’t Go”

“United We Stand”

“Life Rolls On”

“Beautiful As You Are”