“There was a time, 10 or 12 years ago, when I heard people say: ‘Rock is dead’. I see rock alive and well again”, reflects the singer
Rock has made a massive return to stadiums through major tours. AND Jon Bon Jovi credits a certain British group with making this kind of show seem like a happening again.
THE Bon JoviJon’s band, announced last week their first tour since surgery on the singer’s vocal cords. The short sequence of performances will take place in stadiums in the United States and Europe in the middle of 2026. And at a press conference to promote the presentations (via Far Out Magazine), the frontman stated that the Oasis revitalized the concept with his return.
He said:
“The promise of what Oasis has achieved will give a lot of young rock bands the opportunity to shine on big stages. I think it’s good when artists can fill stadiums and people can have fun.”
The vocalist stated that this interest in larger stages — and audiences — also has its origins in the search for communal post-pandemic experiences. And he thinks rock has benefited from that.
The American said:
“I think, post-Covid, people wanted that kind of experience. They wanted to come together again and feel that joy. And here we are. Bigger than ever. There was a time, 10 or 12 years ago, when I heard people say, ‘Rock is dead’. I see rock alive and well again.”
Bon Jovi tour
Bon Jovi’s comeback tour will currently feature four performances at Madison Square Garden, in New York, between July 7th and 14th, 2026. The band has three more dates announced in addition: August 28th in the city of Edinburgh, August 30th in Dublin and September 4th at Wembley Stadium.
Oasis’ curious opinion on Jon’s band
Unfortunately for Jon Bon Jovi, at least historically, Oasis was not very kind to his band. According to the frontman himself, Liam Gallagher I called him exclusively to insult him.
He told (via Igor Miranda website):
“Liam Gallagher kept making annoying calls to me for over a decade. God knows how he got my number. He’d call at three or four in the morning just to tell me my music was sh*t.”
Jon, interestingly enough, recognized the value of insults. That’s because the younger Gallagher was extremely creative when it came to badmouthing him. Still, he wanted to be left alone by the Oasis singer.
He recalled:
“Sometimes he called me the bastard son of Richard Branson. In others it screamed ‘Lionhead’ [cabeça de leão em português] on the phone until I hang up. In the end, I offered to pay him $500,000 and begged him to stop. He told me to ‘eat sh*t’…”
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Source: Rollingstone
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