Randy Jackson's Journey Days Highlighted on American Idol Season 8

American Idol judge, Randy Jackson was in the band Journey, Video shown on AI highlights his rockin' Journey days; Also information on Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell.

Photos show American Idol judge, In Randy Jackson's "Journey" days he looked fierce.

American Idol judge, Randy Jackson was a member of "Journey."

In 1986 Randy Jackson joined Journey and played the bass guitar.

You can view a photo of Randy Jackson playing the bass for Journey here Randy Jackson also sang some of the vocals on the Journey album "Raised on the radio"

The American Idol season 8 show showed off Randy is his rockin Journey days.

The band Journey has had many members since it was formed on 1973.

According to Wikipedia article here The current Journey members are: Ross Valory , Deen Castronovo, Jonathan Cain, Neal Schon and Arnel Pineda. The Former Journey members :Gregg Rolie, Prairie Prince, George Tickner, Aynsley Dunbar, Steve Perry , Robert Fleischman, Steve Smith, Stevie Roseman, Larrie Londin, and Mike Baird.

Randy Jackson has been in more bands than just Journey. He also played the bass guitar for the Divinyls album. The Divinyls were best known for the song "I touch myself." He played bass on the Tracy Chapman album "Matters of the heart" album. He also played guitar on the hit song " Human touch" sang by Bruce Springsteen.

In 2002 Randy Jackson joined Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul as a judge on American Idol. Fan have adored Randy since he first appeared on American Idol.

In 2008 Randy Jackson released a album entitled "Randy Jackson's dance club." The most popular song from the album has been from fellow American Idol judge Paula Abdul "Dance like there's no tomorrow"

Randy also has his own radio show called "Randy Jackson's hit list" Randy Jackson's official myspace page can be found here

Paula Abdul was a Lakers cheerleader in the 1980's. In the late 80's and early '90's Paula Abdul was a radio sensation with her songs "Forever your girl", "Straight up" and "Opposites attract."

Paula Abdul was married to Emilio Estevez from 1992-1994.

Simon Cowell recently made headlines when he fired Kelly Brook from the British show "Britain's got talent" In November 2008 Terri Seymour reportly ender her longtime relationship with Simon.

Simon Cowell previously dated the very beautiful Miss Nude UK, Jackie St. Claire.

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