He truly lived in prayer.
After hearing his band’s 1986 hit “Livin’ on a Prayer” for the first time, Jon Bon Jovi admitted that it took some convincing to make him listen to it for long.
The 62-year-old rocker said he was “not that impressed” with the iconic song when it was first written, but eventually admitted he was “wrong” about the song’s longevity.
“It’s not that I didn’t want to record it, but I wasn’t all that moved the day I wrote it,” says the Grammy winner. told the people.
“It was a simple chord progression, melody and lyrics.” [at first]. However, the bass line came to life in the demo studio, and it wasn’t until we brought it back to the band that we worked on it. That’s how it became what it is today. ”
“We knew what we wanted and we just didn’t have it, so I thought, ‘Yeah, that’s good.’ Good day. Good morning to the office.” ‘It’s one of the biggest songs in our catalog,’ added the Bon Jovi frontman.
The song eventually became one of the band’s most famous hits, reaching the top of Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart.
It has since received over 3 million digital downloads worldwide and is certified triple platinum.
Additionally, the rocker admitted he wasn’t really into the band’s 1994 hit “Always.”
“When I wrote it, I demoed it for a movie I wrote, and I was like, ‘Oh, this isn’t very good,'” he said.
“We put it on the shelf, and this A+R guy who was a friend of ours was listening to some of the lost songs and said, ‘You know what? This is a monster hit.’ . He was right,” he told the outlet, adding that the song has since become “one of our biggest songs of all time.”
The 1994 power ballad sold more than 1 million copies in the United States and 3 million worldwide.
The rocker revealed he hasn’t always been a “saint” during his more than 30-year marriage to wife Dorothea.
The ‘You Give Love a Bad Name’ hitmaker and his wife are preparing to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary next week, but he says he couldn’t have reached this milestone without his wife’s ‘forgiveness’. I admit it.
