Bon Jovi
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Interview by Maureen Paton, Rock's Backpages audio, 8 December 2005
The Bon Jovi front man talks about his family background, still being a New Jersey boy, and remaining close to his parents; being in bad movies; how the band has stayed together, but not wanting to be on the road for the rest of his life; the temptations of the road, his family life, and fostering children; Hurricane Katrina, and class and race in America.
File format: mp3; file size: 27.3.mb, interview length: 28' 27" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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ZZ Top/Marillion/Bon Jovi/Metallica/Ratt/Magnum: Donington Park, Leicestershire
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 24 August 1985
KINGS AND RATTS OF THE CASTLE Yes, it's that time of year when the Metal Mob gather at the shrine of Donington to pay homage to ...
Bon Jovi: No Slip Till Hammersmith
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 30 October 1986
HOWARD JOHNSON talks to JON BON JOVI on the eve of the band's UK tour ...
Report and Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Spin, April 1987
They came, they made videos, they conquered: Five nice guys from New Jersey find a place in the sun. Article by Glenn O'Brien. ...
Jon Bon Jovi: "I am Superman!"
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 8 April 1987
No, you're not — you're Jon Bon Jovi and you "only came to rock and roll" (or something like that). "Wooooah!" screams Tom Hibbert. ...
Report and Interview by Richard Cook, Sounds, 22 August 1987
BON JOVI give RICHARD COOK the key to their kingdom (well, a laminated ID card actually) where minders are built like trees, young girls wear ...
Bon Jovi, Dio, Metallica, Anthrax, W.A.S.P., Cinderella: Monsters Of Rock, Castle Donington
Live Review by Steven Wells, Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 29 August 1987
THRASH TRASH ...
Bon Jovi/Dio/Metallica/Anthrax/W.A.S.P.: Monsters Of Rock, Castle Donington
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 29 August 1987
MATALLIC KO ...
Doc McGhee: Top rock manager pleads guilty to drug charges
Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 10 March 1988
Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe boss tied to international smuggling ring ...
Bon Jovi: New Jersey (Polygram)***; Metallica: ...And Justice for All (Elektra)***½
Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 3 November 1988
When things get heavy ...
Profile and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 2 December 1988
Adam Sweeting meets Bon Jovi, the hard-rockers turned chart phenomenc ...
Yankee Noodle Dandies: Bon Jovi
Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 24 December 1988
HE'S ONLY NINE months older than me, but last year Jon Bongiovi - a 26-year-old American of Sicilian extraction - made more money than you ...
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1989
"BON JOVI... Back To Kick Ass" declare the T-shirts outside the Royal Dublin Society Arena. Below this raunchy statement of intent is the list of ...
Report and Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 9 February 1989
THE AMBASSADORS OF LITE-METAL MUSIC HEAD OUT TO EXPORT NEW JERSEY TO RUSSIA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD ...
Small really is beautiful: Bon Jovi, Europe, Vixen: Milton Keynes Bowl; Wolfsbane: Marquee, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 2 September 1989
BON JOVI's backstage booze fountain runs dry halfway through the evening. A metaphor for their coming performance? An omen for the career of Noo Joisey's ...
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 11 November 1989
After all the dirt dished out by Mötley Crüe about Moscow, Doc McGhee and the New Jersey Syndicate Jon Bon Jovi has at last decided ...
Motley Crüe : Moscow Festival – Crüe Still Peace-d off with Bon Jovi
Report and Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 13 January 1990
The feud goes on: Nikki Sixx brands JBJ a 'lying asshole' and challenges him to a fist-fight! ...
Bon Jovi: Search for a New Faith
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 6 November 1992
Jon Bon Jovi jumped off rock's roller-coaster and started to look around. What he saw has changed what he is ...
Bon Jovi: The Worcester Centrum
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 20 February 1993
WORCESTER – During the mid-part of the decade just past, Bon Jovi set the standard for American arena rock: middlebrow, confection-like, pop /hard rock with ...
Report and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 17 June 1995
Jon Bon Jovi was once the king of hairspray and spandex. Now he wants to be taken a lot more seriously. The hell-raising days are ...
Bon Jovi: These Days (Mercury 5282482)
Review by Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1995
RETURNING FROM their minor flirtation with funky modernity and relatively short hair on Keep The Faith, Jon and the boys swing back into classic Jovi ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Request, 1996
Bon Jovi release a retrospective Best Of album this Autumn. Jon Bon Jovi looks back at the band's past and their ten years of music. ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, August 1996
And rich. And famous. And in films. Bon Jovi have been to the brink, cocked a manly Noo Joisey snook at it, and bounded back, ...
Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Woman, 1997
THE ROCKAWAY BEACH housewives can’t quite believe their eyes. Leaning moodily against a lamp-post on this faded seaside street is the drop-dead-handsome rock star they ...
Jon Bon Jovi: Destination Anywhere
Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, July 1997
THE ONLY living American to get the hang of TFI Friday. The hardest-working man in, oh, several industries. The pin-up pop star who dared to ...
Bon Jovi: Don't Mention The Hair!
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 17 June 2000
Tousled, crimped and teased to perfection, how can NME not mention poodle rock's most celebrated barnet? So Bon Jovi, hair we go! ...
Kiss and Cher: the minder reveals all
Interview by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 3 September 2003
For 30 years, Michael Francis has been a bodyguard and fixer to some of rocks least controllable artists. He tells Mick Brown what it takes ...
Bon Jovi: 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, February 2005
Ooh, they can be, you know ...
Interview by Precious Williams, Daily Telegraph, 16 September 2005
GONE is the once fearsome mane of highlighted hair and without it Jon Bon Jovi is almost unrecognizable. Strolling into Beverly Hills' Four Seasons ...
Jon Bon Jovi: "I feel I've found my niche"
Interview by Precious Williams, Daily Telegraph, 16 September 2005
Jon Bon Jovi expected nothing less than to be a rock star. But, he tells Precious Williams, he's never counted celebrity for the sake of ...
Jon Bon Jovi (2005) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by Maureen Paton, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 8 December 2005
This is a transcript of Maureen's phone interview with the Bon Jovi singer and actor. Listen to the interview. ...
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 5 November 2009
When Creation boss and Oasis mentor Alan McGee confessed his admiration for veteran rocker Jon Bon Jovi on a Guardian blog, we just had to ...
Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 12 September 2010
Stars such as Janelle Monáe are selling "meet-and-greets" with fans to bolster profits. But it's a money-making scheme not without its risks ...
12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief: Madison Square Garden, New York
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, December 2012
IT MIGHT HAVE been the single greatest gathering of talent for a rock show – or it might just have been, as Mick Jagger put ...
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