According to CBC News, famed former JOURNEY singer STEVE PERRY is working on a solo album in Los Angeles.

But Perry was discussing his past - more specifically the massive resurgence of the song 'Don't Stop Believing' - with CBC's Q cultural affairs show this week.

"When we were doing the song in 1981, I knew something was happening, but honestly, when I saw it in the film Monster with Patty Jenkins, I started think, 'Oh my goodness there's really something.'"

It's famous appearance in the final episode of The Sopranos is just one of a series of uses of the song on TV and in film that has reintroduced it to successive generations of listeners.

Perry said he held back permission for using the song in the famous last episode of The Sopranos because he was afraid he had heard the rumours someone was going to be killed.

"I wanted to know how it was used. I didn't wanted to have a [director Martin] Scorsese moment at the end of the film and someone being whacked with an Uzi with the song playing," he said.

Steve Perry, former lead singer in the rock band Journey, signs autographs in Los Angeles in January 2005. He says he always thought Don't Stop Believing, which is enjoying massive popularity today, had potential as a single. Steve Perry, former lead singer in the rock band Journey, signs autographs in Los Angeles in January 2005. He says he always thought Don't Stop Believing, which is enjoying massive popularity today, had potential as a single. (Jim Ruymen/Reuters)The producers, who had been keeping a tight lock on the final storyline for fear it would be leaked, finally told Perry what would happen on the TV series.

The result was a surge of iTunes sales the following day.

"One of the things that did happen is that people did get interested in hearing Journey again," Perry said.

Read the entire interview here.