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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Jon Bon Jovi On Getting His Voice Back for New Album, "Forever”

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Willie chats with Jon Bon Jovi about his new album, "Forever", which marks a victory in the fight to get his voice back. They also talk about his head-spinning rise from Jersey bar-singer to international superstar, and they even take a tour of his studio at his Jersey home.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:09.2

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

0:12.3

Very, very excited to bring in my

0:14.6

conversation today with an honest to goodness rock and roll icon, Mr. John Bon Jovi.

0:20.8

I should disclose up front, I am from New Jersey, Bon Jovi. I should disclose up front. I am from New Jersey. Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen

0:26.3

are in my blood. It's part of the charter of our state. For God's sakes, John Bon Jovi now has a rest up named for him on the Garden State Parkway.

0:37.0

In our land, that is the highest compliment you can receive.

0:40.0

It actually is a really big deal.

0:42.0

So, John and I got together ahead of the

0:43.9

release of the band's new album it's called Forever. It's Bon Jovi's 16th

0:49.4

studio album. We got together at home. He invited us down to his place in New Jersey, a beautiful

0:55.8

spread as you can imagine. And just so you can kind of picture where we are. We're in a building on

1:00.5

his property that's called a man cave it's a bar lounge really so

1:06.3

we're seated at the bar you got your pool table you got your hangout area

1:09.5

sort of memorabilia from his film career in there.

1:14.0

The music stuff, which I'll tell you about a little bit later, is in a studio where they record their album.

1:20.0

So we're chilling at the bar.

1:22.0

We popped a bottle of Hampton Water, which is a rosé put out by his son, a very successful brand that John is also behind. So you might hear his clinking glasses there doing a little of that and

1:34.3

sat down and talked about his career around the release of this album forever and

1:38.8

also the recent Hulu docu, Thank You Good Night,

1:42.6

the Bon Jovi story which tells the 40 year history of the band.

1:46.0

So a great conversation about the music,

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