I was on wikipedia just goofing around and one of my all time favorite bands is Journey. Well it comes to find out I remember a few years ago watching VH1 behind the music on Journey that they went to the hospital to vist a dying boy as his last request. Well the entire band went and brought a walk-man with their next song to be released and let him be the first one to listen to it.
The song was "Only the young", the boy 16 at the time died the very next day. He had cystic fibrosis. I remember the band crying in the documentarty recalling the day they met him and him touching their lives. Remembering them getting emotional is why I did the research on why he died because the more I thought about the more I thought he might of had CF. The part that sent chill bumps through me was that was the song my wife and I walked out to our wedding reception to 5 years ago. We had just found out a few weeks before we got married that we were having Avery. I loved that song as a kid and I love it today, it just has so much meaning to young life.
<b><i>"A short time later, the band received a request from a dying 16-year-old boy named Kenny Sykaluk, who was battling cystic fibrosis. Kenny wanted to meet the band. The band honored the request and not only visited Kenny at his bedside, but gave him a walkman with their newest single, "Only The Young". Kenny died less than a day later. In Journey's episode of Behind the Music, Jonathan Cain remembered the encounter in tears, while Neal Schon noted that it "changed my outlook on life</i>."</b>
The song was "Only the young", the boy 16 at the time died the very next day. He had cystic fibrosis. I remember the band crying in the documentarty recalling the day they met him and him touching their lives. Remembering them getting emotional is why I did the research on why he died because the more I thought about the more I thought he might of had CF. The part that sent chill bumps through me was that was the song my wife and I walked out to our wedding reception to 5 years ago. We had just found out a few weeks before we got married that we were having Avery. I loved that song as a kid and I love it today, it just has so much meaning to young life.
<b><i>"A short time later, the band received a request from a dying 16-year-old boy named Kenny Sykaluk, who was battling cystic fibrosis. Kenny wanted to meet the band. The band honored the request and not only visited Kenny at his bedside, but gave him a walkman with their newest single, "Only The Young". Kenny died less than a day later. In Journey's episode of Behind the Music, Jonathan Cain remembered the encounter in tears, while Neal Schon noted that it "changed my outlook on life</i>."</b>