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What happened to the band Journey in 1977?
Journey went on tour with Fleischman in 1977 and together the new incarnation of the band wrote the hit Wheel in the Sky“.
What other music did Journey write, besides Wheel in the Sky?
Steve Perry, Neal Schon, Gregg Rolie, Steve Smith, and Ross Valory recorded Evolution (1979), which gave the band their first Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 single, Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'“.

Question: What was different about their music?
Self-contained rewrite: What was different about Journey's music from 1977-1980?