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Lead Performance: Steve Perry
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By Tom Sinclair
Tom Sinclair
Tom Sinclair
Tom Sinclair is a senior writer for EW and has been called "the handsomest man in rock criticism'' (by his wife)

Steve Perry's second solo album, For the Love of Strange Medicine, has all the stuff you either loved or loathed about his former group Journey: overwrought, freeze-dried ballads both with and without power chords, vapidly sentimental lyrics like ''I am lost in a world of emptiness,'' and loads of syrupy synthesized keyboards. Like castor oil, Medicine goes down easy — if you can control your gag reflex. C-


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Posted Jul 29, 1994
 

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