Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi in Montreal, November 2007
Background information
Origin
Sayreville, New Jersey, United
States
Genre(s)
Hard rock
Years
active
1983–present
Label(s)
Island, Mercury
Website
Official site
Members
Jon Bon Jovi
Richie Sambora
David Bryan
Tico Torres
Former members
Alec John Such
Bon Jovi is an American hard rock band
from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead
singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group
originally achieved large-scale success in the
1980s. Over the past 25 years, Bon Jovi has
sold over 120 million albums worldwide.
Bon Jovi formed in 1983 with lead singer
Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi, Jr.),
guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David
Bryan, bassist Alec John Such, and drummer
Tico Torres. Other than the departure of Alec
John Such in 1994 (which pared the lineup
down to a quartet), the lineup has remained
the same for the past 25 years. After two
moderately successful albums in 1984 and
1985, the band scored big with Slippery
When Wet (1986) and New Jersey (1988),
which sold a combined 19 million copies in
the U.S. alone, charted eight Top Ten hits (in-
cluding four number one hits), and launched
the band into global super stardom. After
non-stop touring, the band went on hiatus
after the New Jersey Tour in 1990, during
which time Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora
both released successful solo albums. In
1992, the band returned with the double plat-
inum Keep the Faith and has since created a
string of platinum albums throughout the
1990s and 2000s.
Throughout their career, the band has re-
leased ten studio albums, of which nine have
gone platinum in U.S. In addition, the band
has charted 17 singles to the Top 40 of the
Billboard Hot 100, four of which reached #1 -
"You Give Love a Bad Name", "Livin’ on a
Prayer", "Bad Medicine" and "I’ll Be There
for You". The band also holds the record for
the most weeks for a hard rock album at #1
on the Billboard 200 with Slippery When
Wet, as well as the most Top 10 singles from
a hard rock album, with New Jersey, which
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