“Welcome to America,” Jon said with a laugh.Ĭheck out Robin singing “Livin’ on a Prayer” (below). He put Robin Quivers to the test on Wednesday as she tried singing “Livin’ on a Prayer.” While she knew the first verse has something to do with a guy name Tommy being on a dock, she couldn’t recite the hit song word for word.
He’s also noticed, after a lifetime of touring the world, that American audiences only know the lyrics to a song’s chorus by heart while the words of a song’s verses hardly ever get remembered. His motto of “Don’t bore us, get to the chorus” has proven to work in much of Bon Jovi’s music. alone.įor Jon, one method for making a song a hit is to start off singing the chorus. To date, the album has sold over 12 million copies in the U.S. Photographer Mark Weiss captured the now iconic cover. “I took my fingers and squirted water, wrote ‘Slippery When Wet,’ and said, ‘Here’s your album cover,’” Jon said of how he hand-wrote the title onto a wet garbage bag. The label gave Bon Jovi just two days to come up with a better cover for “Slippery,” so Jon decided to go with something simple: a garbage bag. I’m going, ‘My career is over if we put out a hot pink album cover,’” Jon recalled. Jon told Howard when he heard the description of that album cover over a phone call, he nearly threw up. That earlier version featured a photo of a sexy girl wearing a wet cut-off T-shirt framed by a hot pink border. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.Īs good as the album’s sales were, Jon still wonders what might have happened had the record company released it with its original cover. The album had a string of hit singles, including “You Give Love a Bad Name” and “Livin’ on a Prayer,” both of which reached No. Once “Slippery When Wet” hit store shelves, Bon Jovi instantly became one of the biggest acts in rock and roll. “We all came together and everyone’s life changed.” “This is where the world starts to change for all of us,” Jon said. It took some time before the soon-to-be Hall of Famers found success as rock stars, with Jon informing Howard how many of the band members were still living at home even while they were writing their third studio album “Slippery When Wet.” He recalled writing “You Give Love a Bad Name” in Richie Sambora’s mother’s basement next to her washing machine.
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Hear the full story of how Jon asked Howard to induct Bon Jovi into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (below).įor decades, Bon Jovi has been dropping by the Stern Show, performing live in studio and telling Howard stories about how the band came to be. “Nobody knows not only me but the members of the band as well as Howard.” “Our careers have paralleled in a lot of ways and whether it was the ups or the downs, we’ve come through everything together,” Jon said on the air. Jon explained he spent a lot of time considering who should be the one to induct him and his band into the Rock Hall, but in the end he knew it had to be Howard. I am thrilled to do it,” Howard told Jon. The announcement was made on Wednesday morning’s Stern Show during Jon Bon Jovi’s interview with Howard. Renowned rock band Bon Jovi is finally being honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and it’ll be none other than Howard Stern who’ll induct them at the ceremony later this year.
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