Jon's 1997 solo album Destination Anywhere was quite a shock to his Bon Jovi fan base. Livin' On A Prayer is most certainly nondenominational." It is its own entity," he said before adding, "I think I find more strength in faith than I do in organised religion. There is nothing that you can say is derivative about the song. "Maybe because the themes of Wanted are a little more universal, it makes Prayer that much more unique. Jon was asked by Time magazine a few years ago what song showed "The Real You." "I think if there was only one, it would be a tough choice between Livin' On A Prayer and Wanted Dead Or Alive," he said. It isn't coruscating social commentary but it is not Boyzone either. Had Bob Dylan wrote about "livin' on a prayer" - about those moments of terrible truth in life when all you got left is a prayer - it would have been heralded with hosannas from on high by critics internationally. What Bon Jovi did, we did our way." Doing it their way, through songs like Livin' On A Prayer and Wanted Dead Or Alive, meant they played to sold-out stadia all over the world at the end of the month they play two sold-out shows in Dublin. We never had rappers when that was popular, or hung out with grunge guys, or tried to be a boyband. He had said prior to this that his biggest challenge was that "I never sold out or sacrificed my art for commerce. Asked what's the biggest myth about rock stars, he replied: "That if you didn't throw up today, you don't really rock. And there are too many people my age, that are dying. I'm coming to real good terms with getting older".Īsked what precisely are the advantages of ageing, the seemingly ageless rock star replied: "You become that thing that you looked at your parents and said: 'No! I don't want to live to be that old!' But it's actually. Bored to tears." He continued by way of emphasis that he was "not the fat Elvis. Last year, he told the Observer: "I'm overweight. I just spent my time out in California, drinkin', being miserable, seriously wanted to seek help, jump out of my car when I was driving. I was as low as I could ever imagine myself being. He says the period 1990 to 1992 "was seriously low. I have no regard for that whole lifestyle." You're never going to read that story about me. I don't have a mistress on the side or another family across town.
Jon Bon Jovi was candid enough to add that he doesn't "look at this week's hot starlet and think about trading in or trading up.
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But it's not like Dorothea came in halfway through the movie and didn't know who she got," he said referring to his high-school sweetheart, Dorothea Hurley, whom he married in 1989 they have a daughter, Stephanie, and three sons - Jesse, Jake, and Romeo. I missed tons of birthdays and school plays.
"I've been in one of the biggest rock bands in the world for 25 years, and I'm not a saint, and I have not been a saint. "I have many major issues with the church." In 2007 he admitted he's more than dipped his toe into the "shallow pool" of rock stardom. "I'm what you call a recovering Catholic," he said recently. Blame, perhaps, the Catholic priests and teachers of his childhood. Sometimes it appears like the music business has left his soul drained. There's a more complex side to John Francis Bongiovi who was born in 1962 in New Jersey and formed Bon Jovi with guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboard player David Bryan and drummer Tico Torres when he was in his twenties. Yet Jon Bon Jovi isn't the uber-cliched rock Everyman he's often portrayed as. Hilariously, some people misheard this lyric as: "Doesn't make a difference if we're naked or not." He is the master of guts-or-glory choruses about holding "on to what we've got because it doesn't make a difference if we make it or not". He is the high priest of big rock epiphanies about bad medicine and being wanted dead or alive - songs that cause audiences en masse to raise their Zippo lighters defiantly in the air.
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