They put Burning Bridges out last year, which was a bunch of song castaways just to get out of their Mercury contract. So people might have thought he was coming back. But they sold most of those tickets prior to Richie leaving. So you sit there thinking, well, it didn't affect the tour at all, because they sold out all the shows. But Richie quit a quarter of the way through. It grossed $260 million, and was the number one tour in the world that year. I've heard that Jon is not contemplating a whole tour yet with the band, which is rather telling. His band The Drills is actually kind of a raunchy hard rock band, so I was curious how that was going to work out with Bon Jovi. It's trying to be a little grittier with the guitar this time. I wish Richie was there, for his soulfulness. It's pretty good, but it's not quite the same. But it's a mixture of the rock stuff of The Circle with a lot of the adult contemporary stuff that was on the 2013 album] What About Now. He's a bigger part of the band than some people think. I was wondering what was going to happen after Richie left, because he had a very soulful kind of playing. I hopped on the phone with Reesman to talk about the band, their business and how they managed to be the sole act from the hair-metal era to stay relevant and on top of the charts for decades.īryan Reesman: I was streaming the album today. Writer Bryan Reesman does his best to get to the bottom of the story of five guys from New Jersey in his new book Bon Jovi: The Story(Sterling), out on Nov.
Whether it's early staples like "Livin' on a Prayer," later anthems like "It's My Life," country music crossovers like "Who Says You Can't Go Home," or ballads like "Always," the sounds of Jon, Richie and company are never far from your ears.īut not much is known about the behind-the-scenes moves of the rock juggernaut. From their start as the quintessential 1980s "hair band" to their mid-90s reinvention to their incredibly lucrative and successful tours of recent years, the band has always managed to reinvent itself, stay current and keep making hit songs.
Bon Jovi is one of the longest-running and most commercially and financially successful rock bands out there.
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