Jon's third child and second son, Jake Bongiovi, is an actor. This ultimately resulted in them permanently changing their sound to a much less metal-oriented style. This had to do with their move towards softer pop ballad, which made them staples on adult contemporary radio. The band is closely associated with the 1980s Hair Metal era, but were one of the few bands from that genre to retain their popularity after the Grunge explosion of the early 1990s.

In 1992, the band returned with the double platinum Keep the Faith and has since created a string of platinum albums throughout the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.

alone, charted eight Top Ten hits (including four number one hits), and launched the band into global super stardom.Īfter non-stop touring, the band went on hiatus after the New Jersey Tour in 1990, during which time Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora both released successful solo albums. After two moderately successful albums in 19, the band scored big with Slippery When Wet from 1986 and New Jersey from 1988, which sold a combined 19 million copies in the U.S. Other than the departure of Such in 1994 (which pared the official lineup down to a quartet - his replacement, Hugh McDonald, did not become an official member until 2016), and Sambora in 2013 (replaced by touring member Phil X, who was an unofficial member until 2016 when, like Hugh, he was made an official member), the lineup has remained more or less stable. Richie Sambora joined shortly afterwards. aka Jon Bon Jovi, David Bryan, Alec John Such, and Tico Torres. Over the past 25 years, Bon Jovi has sold over 120 million albums worldwide, including 36 million in the United States alone.īon Jovi formed in 1983 with John Francis Bongiovi Jr. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s. However, that didn’t end well as he and his girlfriend got into what we might call a terrible business deal, with having to pay fifty extra dollars to the police while trying to make a few bucks to see Springsteen.Bon Jovi is an American hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. So, as the people of the modern age are currently protesting and complaining about the expensive fees, a young Jon Bon Jovi in the early ’80s also thought the same while trying to pay for some Springsteen tickets despite being broke.

They kept the posters, and I think we paid like a fifty-dollar fine… so it was the tickets and the fifty dollars, and we all got in trouble.” They knew that we weren’t real bootleggers we were just two kids who wanted to go to a show. The rocker continued by disclosing whether they spent the night in jail: So, we thought get a buck or two for them, and one cop came up and said, ‘Two bucks, give me a poster.’ And I gave him one he says, ‘ You’re under arrest.’ And he took us in, threw us right in the paddy wagon, and took us to jail.”

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