Rock band Journey have reflected on the moment their biggest song, “Don’t Stop Believin’”, featured in the famous final episode of The Sopranos...
and their terror at the prospect of it being used in Glee. Warning: spoilers ahead for The Sopranos The Eighties rock anthem memorably plays while Tony Soprano and his family meet at a diner, where he tells his wife Carmela that Carlo, former capo turned FBI informant, will testify against him. His son, AJ, reminds him of his advice to “remember the good times”.
The scene then notoriously cuts abruptly to black after a man that has been watching them gets up to use the bathroom and Tony looks up as the diner door opens. In the years since , it has been widely discussed by TV fans due to the uncertainty surrounding Tony’s fate. In a new interview, guitarist and songwriter Neal Schon reflected on the song’s success and its use in a number of pivotal scenes in films and TV shows.
When I first heard the finished song I knew it was special, but it took years to get to the place where it’s a worldwide anthem,” he told The Guardian. “Everybody has their own theory about why ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ exploded in the new millennium. First, there was the movie Monster, with Charlize Theron.
“Then came The Sopranos – I remember my phone blowing up and all my friends saying: ‘Man, did you see the final scene?’” Schon admitted that he was “terrified” when “Don’t Stop Believin’” was later used in .