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Originally Posted by Becky
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I agree, Becky. It looks like the whole article is bogus.
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...Sambora entered the party, picked up a copy of the magazine, and read the story on Page 132 about “Livin’ on a Prayer,” the New Jersey group’s biggest hit, with 12 million in sales.
The story didn’t even mention Sambora, who co-wrote the song and performed it for decades, while crediting Jon Bon Jovi and “co-writer Desmond Child, who would go on to write hits for Ricky Martin and Katy Perry.”
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I don't have access to a print copy of Billboard, but here's Billboard's online article about LOAP, dated the week of The Power 100 Gala and Richie's name is there.
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On Valentine's Day 29 years ago, the band solidified its standing among the titans of hair bands with its second Hot 100 leader.
"HARD-WORKING, HARD-TOURING pop/metal outfit has built a strong core audience and now has a breakthrough album … An exceptionally strong album that should take the band all the way."
That's how Billboard praised Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet in the Sept. 6, 1986, issue, ahead of the set's debut on the Billboard 200 the following week. The critique would soon prove accurate: the album became the New Jersey band's first of five Billboard 200 No. 1s, as well as its longest-leading (eight weeks) and top-seller (12 million copies in the United States, according to the Recording Industry Assn. of America). Previously, the group had reached No. 43 with its eponymous 1984 debut LP and No. 37 with 1985's 7800 Degrees Farenheit.
Slippery When Wet likewise established Bon Jovi as force on the Billboard Hot 100, as lead single "You Give Love a Bad Name" topped the Nov. 29, 1986 tally (besting the band's prior high of No. 39, set by its debut 1984 hit "Runaway"). Follow-up "Livin' on a Prayer" took the band to further heights, reigning for four frames beginning Feb. 14, 1987, marking the act's longest-ruling of four No. 1s to date. The smash's legacy remains strong nearly three decades later (symbolically realizing the aspirations of its lyrical principals, Tommy and Gina), having become Bon Jovi's signature song. It even re-entered the Hot 100 (at No. 25) for a week in 2013 thanks to its synch in a user-generated viral video.
Meanwhile, "Name" and "Prayer" co-writer Desmond Child, who penned both songs with the band's Jon Bon Jovi and (since departed member) Richie Sambora, has likewise enjoyed subsequent success, co-authoring, along with other Bon Jovi hits, Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" and Katy Perry's "Waking Up in Vegas."
In August 2015, Bon Jovi parted ways with Mercury Records after 32 years. Still, the group hopes to release a new album, perhaps independently, in 2016. "I have a lot of material to write about," Jon Bon Jovi told Billboard last year. "The new record is good. It's something we are going to be very proud of."
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“Richie was pissed,” said my source, who speculated that Bon Jovi’s new manager, Irving Azoff, may have had a hand in Sambora’s non-mention. Sambora is still repped by Doc McGhee, the original Bon Jovi manager.
Spokespeople for Sambora and Billboard didn’t get back to me.
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Wonder who Mr. Johnson's "source" is supposed to be. Lund/Borg? Sounds like their style. I heard thru the grapevine that Nikki was trying to stir sh!t up again among the few WTB followers she has left. Maybe she and Borg didn't like the way their lawsuit turned out.
And Doc isn't
still Richie's manager. He's
again Richie's manager. A responsible journalist would have known that or would have been able to research it quickly enough. That is, if any of them bothered to check their facts anymore!
