Jon Bon Jovi shared his thoughts on the rights and wrongs of Bon Jovi’s music videos in the early years of their career.
In the 1980s, music videos were one of the main promotional ways for an artist to get their music to listeners. And as the video age grew, there was a lot of trial and error when it came to successful music videos.
Jon Bon Jovi shared his opinion about the video clips of Bon Jovi in the early years of his career, and the lessons learned after recording the video that the singer is most ashamed of making. When appearing in Andy CohenLivefrom the SiriusXMthe artist also revealed his favorite authorial songs.
We were smart enough on the third album, it took three albums to figure it out […]then ‘You Give Love a Bad Name’, ‘Livin’ on a Prayer,’‘Wanted Dead or Alive’it’s just performance videos… that’s when we realized that that’s all that matters.”
Occupying the first place of worst music video of the Bon Jovithe vocalist chose the single ‘Runaway’from the eponymous debut album.
“When we made the video of ‘Runaway’, all I could think was, ‘I just learned to play the guitar and wrote a song. Do you want me to be a filmmaker?’ […] If you want to embarrass me, tie me to a chair and make me watch videos from my first two albums.”
In fact, the third disc of the Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet (1986), was a landmark in the history of hard rock and is currently enshrined in the list of the 200 definitive albums in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in addition to being one of the best sellers in the history of the genre. Listen to the single below ‘Runaway’:
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Source: Rollingstone
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