"Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" is a song performed by Journey, recorded for their album Frontiers and released as a single in January 1983.

However, bootleg recordings exist of performances at least a month earlier at Chicago's Rosemont Horizon, where Perry also says the song was two weeks old.

[5] There were some minor differences in the lyrics on this live debut compared to the final version found on Frontiers.

[5]"Usually we don't write songs that far in advance of an album," observed Jonathan Cain, the band's keyboardist, as Andy Secher, in his article "Adventures in Frontierland," published in the June 1983 issue of Hit Parader Magazine, quoted him.

We needed a main rhythm to run through the synthesizer and Steve Smith designed that kind of drum beat to let everything breathe.

Steve [Perry] has always listened to a lot of Motown records, songs with a strong chorus approach.

"[9] In the video, which used the shorter single version, the band performs the song while a young woman in a white jacket and black leather skirt walks along the wharf.

John Diaz, the producer, explains that the idea was that she had dreamed the video after falling asleep while listening to the song.

Not only had the band been told that they could not bring wives or girlfriends to the shoot, the other members hated Swafford and her effect on Perry, which created considerable tension.

Perry had also just gotten his hair cut short, which Cain found inexplicable since the singer's previous hairstyle had been "rockin'.

"[9] A decade later, the video was heavily criticized on the MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-Head, with the titular characters, both voiced by Mike Judge, opining that the video "sucks" and was "horrible" and ridiculing Perry and Schon's fashion sense.

A fan of the show, Steve Perry heard the remix and told Miller and Troy MacCubbin how much he liked it.