Why bon jovi

Rolling Stone. Log In. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. You are no longer onsite at your organization. Please log in. For assistance, contact your corporate administrator. The band responded to tepid critical praise with its third album, Slippery When Wet , which went gold and platinum simultaneously within six weeks of its release.

Powered by songs like "Livin' on a Prayer" and "Wanted Dead or Alive," the album sold in excess of 14 million copies, putting it in the same league as Michael Jackson 's Thriller.

After the band went into temporary retirement in , Jon concentrated on his solo career and appeared in his first movie, Young Guns II , for which he won he won a Golden Globe for Best Song, Blaze of Glory. In , the commercial incentive to return to Bon Jovi proved too hard to resist, and the band released another album, Keep The Faith.

Jon enjoyed further solo success with 's Destination Anywhere. The band regrouped two years later to record the Grammy-nominated album, Crush , and again in for Bounce. In late , marking an impressive journey that produced an estimated million records sold, Bon Jovi was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Not ready to retire their instruments just yet, the band released the single "Unbroken" in November and followed with "Limitless" in February , ahead of the anticipated release of the album , which came out on October 2, In the '90s, Jon stretched his talents by nurturing an acting career with starring roles in Moonlight and Valentino and The Leading Man. He also appeared in a handful of independent films, including Pay It Forward and U On television, he was a regular guest star on Ally McBeal until the series finale in Bon Jovi also made headlines in when he became a co-founder and a majority owner of the Arena Football League's Philadelphia Soul.

He later parted ways with the team. The organization helps fund "innovative community efforts to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness," according to its website.

Bon Jovi married his high school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley, a karate instructor, in Since March, both he and his wife could be found most days at the two community restaurants and massive food bank supported by his foundation near his homes in hard-hit New Jersey and Long Island.

GQ spoke to Bon Jovi about and So I knew that if I was gonna have a topical record in , I better write a Covid song. I was inspired by the health care workers, the students who sacrificed, the grocery store clerk who became an essential worker, the caregiver, the unsung heroes who stepped up to help their neighbors and those who simply wore a mask, not because it was a political tool but because it was a sign of respect for their fellow man.

I think experience has probably given me that ability, to be honest. Now I find that I have nothing left to really prove, and I have nothing to hide.

And the world is in such a place that I felt that I could bear witness to history, as long as I was willing to be that witness. I am but a witness to history. The events I touched on in touched me. Topics such as veterans dealing with PTSD, gun control, inequality, racial injustice, and many others have an unbiased seat at this table. I didn't take sides on any of these important issues.

I just reported on them factually. That was my technique throughout the process. Make it very obvious what the song is about and where I stand, but don't wave a finger, don't be accusatory, that was what I set out to do. Well, being a father, being a philanthropist. The model at my restaurants, JBJ Soul Kitchen, is that those in need volunteer for their meals and earn a certificate that will feed up to four family members. Due to the pandemic, we couldn't have any volunteers work.

But we still had mouths to feed. So Dorothea and I worked five days a week for two months before we went to Long Island and opened a food bank that fed 6, people a month there. From May through the summer, we worked there every day we were open.

They never ask me about a record. There is an open door, What are you waiting for? I came through that very Catholic upbringing. I went in and out of Catholic school a couple times and did have a problem with what had become the organized Catholic church, the stuff with the priests and altar boys. Not personally mind you. We were removed from it. Eventually I found spirituality. But I do it more now than I ever did.

I look toward some kind of higher power.