{"id":2182226,"date":"2025-12-01T00:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2182226"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:47:29","slug":"the-last-word-jon-bon-jovi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-last-word-jon-bon-jovi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Word: Jon Bon Jovi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><strong>This is The Last Word. It\u2019s our chance to take a bonafide music legend and ask them about life, navigating the tricky waters of the music biz and what they\u2019ve got on the horizon. Up next, it\u2019s Jon Bon Jovi.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s it like being back in London, Jon?<\/h2>\n<aside class=\"rs-related-articles\">\n<h4 class=\"rs-related-articles__title\">Read next<\/h4>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s been fabulous. I did a few things that I\u2019ve never done before and I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s weird \u2013 I\u2019m seeing things I\u2019ve never seen before. In 40 years of coming to London, just silly stuff like different restaurants and bars. I love it.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You\u2019re playing Wembley Stadium next summer. Always a big deal?<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019ll be great. We have a history in the building which dates back to the mid-90s, when we were the last band to play the old place. We were meant to open the new one, sold it out a couple of times and they couldn\u2019t put people in the building, so we had to move it to Milton Keynes. That wasn\u2019t fair, so I didn\u2019t play there for a number of years because I was mad at them. I went back in 2019 and thought, \u2018OK, the building\u2019s really actually quite nice.\u2019 And I went back the other day by myself when there was nothing on the pitch and I could take in the size of it and think, \u2018Boy, I\u2019ve had a lot of joy in this building and a lot of great memories here.\u2019 I want to come back for no other reason than that, just to be at peace with it.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">After having major vocal cord surgery, did you ever think you might not sing again, let alone tour?<\/h2>\n<p>At the end of our tour in 2022, a very short tour, I thought basically that I could work the vocal cords back into shape, really not knowing what was wrong with them. By the end of that 15th and final show of the tour, I looked to my wife and said, \u201cThat\u2019s pretty good.\u201d She just responded, \u201cNo, it wasn\u2019t.\u201d And for a moment in time, I thought, \u2018That\u2019s the end.\u2019 I\u2019ve done everything I know how to will it back into shape, to diet properly, no booze, lah-di-dah. But my surgeon said to me, \u201cI promise you nothing other than you\u2019ll be able to sing better than you are now. I don\u2019t know the timeline and the results.\u201d What did I have to lose?<\/p>\n<p>My life wasn\u2019t contingent on ever touring again, but the hope was that I could have the joy that I used to have singing, no matter where it was, that I would end up doing it again. And I have felt that resonance. I have felt that magic in my bones.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you were \u2018Wanted Dead or Alive\u2019, to borrow your song title, where would you flee to?<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s a good question in this crazy world we\u2019re living in. Who would embrace us as expats of America? I think my first and easiest choice would be to come to the UK. After that, I might think Canada, but it\u2019s too cold. Australia, but it\u2019s too far. Ireland would be up there too. The UK and Ireland are two places where I reckon I could go undetected.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bon Jovi - Red, White and Jersey (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8PIQvu4SgY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You\u2019ve teamed up with Bruce Springsteen on \u2018Hollow Man\u2019, which features on the <em>Forever (Legendary Edition)<\/em>. He\u2019s a close friend of yours and you\u2019ve spoken about going on 100-mile drives together when you were recovering from vocal cord surgery\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>Yeah, we do that. It\u2019s an opportunity for two old friends to get together with no phones, no radio, no distractions, but when you run out of things to talk about, you turn around, and that\u2019s really what it has become. Everyone is so curious about it, like it\u2019s the Illuminati getting together somewhere in the Batcave and discussing the world order. But really, it\u2019s just an opportunity to take a drive with an old friend and talk. Of course, the little boy in me still gets excited about it, and the man in me is happy to have a friend to talk to.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You\u2019ve also got Robbie Williams on the record\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>He was the first person I called. He was the right guy to sing \u2018We Made It Look Easy\u2019. Our careers aren\u2019t similar in that I wasn\u2019t in a boy band, and I didn\u2019t have a drugs or alcohol issue, but there have been a lot of peaks and valleys in Robbie\u2019s career, and he can certainly relate to that lyric and say we made it look easy, even if it\u2019s anything but.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How did you become friends?<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019d met at awards shows, but we got closer in the last few years when he moved to Florida. It was before his movie came out and we\u2019d spend evenings together and he became this shoulder to lean on when I needed it.<\/p>\n<p>When he went back on tour this year, I\u2019d tell him, \u201cYou\u2019re an inspiration and do this tour for me, you little prick! Go be great for me, because I need to know that you got through this tour. I\u2019ll be thinking about how cuckoo you are, so that when I want to go cuckoo I won\u2019t, because I\u2019ll be thinking about how you stayed sane, sober and figured it all out.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s the most unlikely place you\u2019ve ever heard a Bon Jovi song?<\/h2>\n<p>Ooh. At the mouth of the Grand Canyon. I was down in the bottom getting gas for my motorcycle, and the guy was pumping gas while they played our music. I had a helmet on, and I was like, \u201cThat\u2019s me!\u201d He didn\u2019t blink an eye. I had to take off the helmet and be like, \u201cNo, really, that\u2019s me! Motherfucker, that\u2019s me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selectmagazines.co.uk\/product\/issue-hash-25-aerosmith-x-yungblud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taken from the December\/January issue of Rolling Stone UK, out now. Order your copy of the magazine here.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is The Last Word. It\u2019s our chance to take a bonafide music legend and ask them about life, navigating the tricky waters of the music biz and what they\u2019ve got on the horizon. Up next, it\u2019s Jon Bon Jovi. What\u2019s it like being back in London, Jon? Read next It\u2019s been fabulous. 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