[2] He recorded one studio album with Rainbow, the highly acclaimed Rising, and live concert material from two world tours was subsequently released as two double LPs and a six-disc CD box set.
[4] Carey released his second solo album, I Won't Be Home Tonight, on the Rocshire label in 1982, along with the single (and music video) "West Coast Summer Nights".
"[3] Tom Demalon, writing for MTV, was less modest: "Why Me" was described in Billboard by Cincinnati's[9] WEBN-FM program director, Denton Marr, as "unusual, eclectic, and very entertaining.
[3] The Pink World album was recorded with minimal input from Geffen, and the finished product was not well received by the label.
Carey had this to say about the response from Geffen: In late 1984 MCA released Planet P Project's double LP rock opera, Pink World, which peaked at #121 on The Billboard 200.
Later in August 2008 Carey released the compilation "The New Machine", which featured some songs recorded between 1985 and 1994 intended to be part of a third Planet P Project album.
The Yugoslav Wars had inspired Carey to write the songs "Tears" and "The Sins of the Fathers" with guitarist Ken Rose.
Carey also got inspired by the book The Fifties by David Halberstam, and wrote some songs about the Baby boomers and Levittown.
"Steeltown" is based on Norway & its history, after Carey played and travelled there extensively, both as a solo artist, and with a band consisting of mostly Norwegian musicians.
Influenced by the occupation years of World War II and the way Norway as a nation handled this, the work is also a statement about the eternal religious conflicts worldwide.