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Jon Bon Jovi Video - Always
It All Started In Asbury Park, New Jersey
Jon and his brothers Matt and Tony were raised by they parents Carol and John Bongiovi in Sayreville, New Jersey.
Jon convinced that one day he would be a rock star liked to hang out in Asbury Park, NJ. At 16, Jon was playing clubs. It was
not long before he hooked up with keyboardist David Bryan, who played with him in a ten-piece rhythm and blues band called
Atlantic City Expressway. Jon also performed with bands called The Rest, The Lechers and John Bongiovi and the Wild Ones.
Personal Quotes
"This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is
the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I
can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to
lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure."--Movieline, February 1998
"Some people just court celebrity for the sake of it. People like Tom Cruise. He was always a great actor, but I think the man's
lost it, lost it. You won't ever catch me jumping up and down on Oprah going on about how I love this woman. And then others
start feeding off it. Suddenly, Katie Holmes is on the covers of magazines. These people claim they hate the intrusion that
fame brings but then they bring it on themselves by having huge entourages everywhere they go, attracting attention to
themselves. It's a great fallacy. Another one's Paris Hilton. Famous for being infamous. And the people who should be getting
the attention, people like Bob Dylan, aren't. It's sad."
"I wrote the album during a time of extreme polarization in America. There was a war happening and it was dividing families. I
realized the party that I was working for had lost but that we still had to come forward together as a nation. You can't be a sore
loser. Hence the album title "Have a Nice Day". What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a
place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that
as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house. And I've never quite known what
motivates politicians. Do they really believe in the cause that strongly or is it just the pursuit of power? I once flew on a plane
with Bill Clinton and a reporter asked whose job was better, mine or the President's? I said that mine was, because I get to
keep the plane and the house."
"My real friends and my family know that if I'm not working I'm miserable. It's not for monetary reasons. I already have fame
and fortune. Now I want to find the greatness in things - which is why I was attracted to the arts in the first place. Slowly, I have
fallen in love with acting. And all the struggle here - the acting lessons, the indie movies - has taught me so much."
"If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful. That's something I learned sweeping
floors at this recording studio called the Power Station. Mediocre stars were the biggest pricks, and the big stars were the
ones who came in and said, "How're those demos going?" - Keep pushing."
"Introverted maybe, but incredibly focused to do whatever it is that I want to do. If it's to go running this morning or to drink
tonight, it's gonna be the whole bottle. I don't sip."
"Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave
a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts
created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties."
"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."
Breakthrough
Slippery When Wet, the band's third album, provided the breakthrough powered by songs like "Livin' on a Prayer" and
"Wanted Dead or Alive", the LP went gold and platinum simultaneously within six weeks of its release.
By April of 1987, Slippery When Wet had sold seven million copies.
Bon Jovi won the American Music Award and People's Choice Awards as Band Of The Year, MTV gave Bon Jovi a Best
Performance Award for the video "Livin' on a Prayer".
Jon was asked what all this astronomical success meant, to which he answered, "Everything is bigger, and it moves twice as
fast.
By the time the Slippery Tour finished in Hawaii on October 17, 1987, the album had sold in excess of 14 million copies,
putting it in the same league of astronomical successes as Thriller by Michael Jackson.
Jon and his brothers Matt and Tony were raised by they parents Carol and John Bongiovi in Sayreville, New Jersey.
Jon convinced that one day he would be a rock star liked to hang out in Asbury Park, NJ. At 16, Jon was playing clubs. It was
not long before he hooked up with keyboardist David Bryan, who played with him in a ten-piece rhythm and blues band called
Atlantic City Expressway. Jon also performed with bands called The Rest, The Lechers and John Bongiovi and the Wild Ones.
Personal Quotes
"This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is
the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I
can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to
lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure."--Movieline, February 1998
"Some people just court celebrity for the sake of it. People like Tom Cruise. He was always a great actor, but I think the man's
lost it, lost it. You won't ever catch me jumping up and down on Oprah going on about how I love this woman. And then others
start feeding off it. Suddenly, Katie Holmes is on the covers of magazines. These people claim they hate the intrusion that
fame brings but then they bring it on themselves by having huge entourages everywhere they go, attracting attention to
themselves. It's a great fallacy. Another one's Paris Hilton. Famous for being infamous. And the people who should be getting
the attention, people like Bob Dylan, aren't. It's sad."
"I wrote the album during a time of extreme polarization in America. There was a war happening and it was dividing families. I
realized the party that I was working for had lost but that we still had to come forward together as a nation. You can't be a sore
loser. Hence the album title "Have a Nice Day". What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a
place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that
as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house. And I've never quite known what
motivates politicians. Do they really believe in the cause that strongly or is it just the pursuit of power? I once flew on a plane
with Bill Clinton and a reporter asked whose job was better, mine or the President's? I said that mine was, because I get to
keep the plane and the house."
"My real friends and my family know that if I'm not working I'm miserable. It's not for monetary reasons. I already have fame
and fortune. Now I want to find the greatness in things - which is why I was attracted to the arts in the first place. Slowly, I have
fallen in love with acting. And all the struggle here - the acting lessons, the indie movies - has taught me so much."
"If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful. That's something I learned sweeping
floors at this recording studio called the Power Station. Mediocre stars were the biggest pricks, and the big stars were the
ones who came in and said, "How're those demos going?" - Keep pushing."
"Introverted maybe, but incredibly focused to do whatever it is that I want to do. If it's to go running this morning or to drink
tonight, it's gonna be the whole bottle. I don't sip."
"Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave
a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts
created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties."
"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."
Breakthrough
Slippery When Wet, the band's third album, provided the breakthrough powered by songs like "Livin' on a Prayer" and
"Wanted Dead or Alive", the LP went gold and platinum simultaneously within six weeks of its release.
By April of 1987, Slippery When Wet had sold seven million copies.
Bon Jovi won the American Music Award and People's Choice Awards as Band Of The Year, MTV gave Bon Jovi a Best
Performance Award for the video "Livin' on a Prayer".
Jon was asked what all this astronomical success meant, to which he answered, "Everything is bigger, and it moves twice as
fast.
By the time the Slippery Tour finished in Hawaii on October 17, 1987, the album had sold in excess of 14 million copies,
putting it in the same league of astronomical successes as Thriller by Michael Jackson.
A: Jon Bon Jovi
got his start in the
music business
doing odd jobs at
his cousin Tony
Bongiovi's famous
Power Station
Studio.
got his start in the
music business
doing odd jobs at
his cousin Tony
Bongiovi's famous
Power Station
Studio.
P . S .