Bon Jovi is an American rock band formed in 1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey. It consists of singer Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, guitarist Phil X, and bassist Hugh McDonald. Previous bassist Alec John Such was dismissed in 1994, and longtime guitarist and co-songwriter Richie Sambora left in 2013. The band has released 14 studio albums, five compilations and three live albums. They have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling American rock bands.
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Bon Jovi is an American rock band formed in 1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey. It consists of singer Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, guitarist Phil X, and bassist Hugh McDonald. Previous bassist Alec John Such was dismissed in 1994, and longtime guitarist and co-songwriter Richie Sambora left in 2013. The band has released 14 studio albums, five compilations and three live albums. They have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling American rock bands, and performed more than 2,700 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 34 million fans. They were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006, and into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Famer in 2018. The band continues to tour and record, with their most recent album This House Is Not for Sale and its associated tour encompassing 2016–2019. Their first single, “Runaway,” was recorded in 1980 in his cousin Tony Bongiovi’s recording studio in New York City. In 1983, Jon visited a local radio station to write and sing jingles for the promotion director, John Lassman, who suggested he include the song on a compilation album of local talent. The song was played on WAPP 103.5FM in Lake Lake, New York, which he had rerecorded in 1982 with local musicians he had designated as the “All Star All Stars” All Star Allstars is the band’s second album, which was released in 1984.
In 1986, the band achieved widespread success and global recognition with their third album, Slippery When Wet, which sold over 20 million copies and included three Top 10 singles, two of which reached No. 1. The platinum albums Have a Nice Day and Lost Highway saw the band incorporate elements of country music into some of the songs, including the 2006 single \”Who Says You Can’t Go Home\”, which won the band a Grammy Award and became the first single by a rock band to reach No. 1 on the country charts. In 2008, the album These Days proved to be a bigger success in Europe than in the United States, producing four Top Ten singles in the UK. In 2012, the group released their fourth album, The Circle, which marked a return to their rock sound. In 2013, they released their fifth album, This House is Not For Sale, which has sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. and more than 7 million copies worldwide. The tour dates of the 2005–2006 Have A Nice Day Tour and 2007–2008 Lost Highway Tour ranking among the Top 20 highest-grossing concert tours of the 2000s and the 2013 Because We Can Tour rankingamong the highest- grossing of the 2010s. In 2014, they embarked on a tour of Australia, where they played more than 1,000 concerts for over 30,000 fans. In 2015, they will tour Australia and New Zealand for the first time.
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