Bad english band biography

By the end of the '80s, mainstream rock had acquired enough of a formula sound that detractors had started to accuse the genre's biggest acts of being more like corporations than artists – and when members of those bands started regrouping themselves under different names, they faced critics' cynical jabs about corporate mergers.

Case in point: Bad English, the short-lived supergroup that amalgamated elements of Journey and the Babys into a new, yet decidedly familiar-sounding, platinum blend.

In retrospect, it isn't hard to understand any cynicism that greeted the formation of the band, which rose out of the ashes of Journey's late '80s implosion.

Left at loose ends, Journey keyboard player Jonathan Cain hooked back up with his former Babys bandmates, bassist Ricky Phillips and singer John Waite.

Ex-Journey guitarist Neal Schon and future Journey drummer Deen Castronovo were t