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Tireless arena-rock outfit Bon Jovi is playing another free concert, this time in Philadelphia. It's in honor of the ArenaBowl XXII win of the Jon Bon Jovi-owned Philadelphia Soul, which raises two questions for me. First: The Arena Football League has been around for 22 years? And second: Do you think people in Philadelphia are already griping about how if Jon really cared about the City Of Brotherly Love, his band would have played a free gig there before the one it pulled off in New York City last month? [Billboard]

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seeing a million faces dept.

Presidential Candidates Hope To Convince Jon Bon Jovi That He Was Made To Be Their Man


I don't know about you, but when I think of the phrases "Jon Bon Jovi" and "politicians" my mind flashes back to the controversy over Jon's eponymous band's video for the 1989 song "Living In Sin," which ruffled a ton of feathers back in the day because it showed a chick taking communion and engaging in premarital sex. Oh, the family values-obsessed wonks who came out of the woodwork for that one! But none of them, as far as I can recall, were among the politicians who the New York Times outed today as courting the New Jerseyan's endorsement for the 2008 Presidential race, because good ol' JBJ has apparently become, as the Times tells it, "New Jersey's very own Bono": More »

12:40 PM on Wed Dec 26 2007
By mjohnston
710 views, 4 comments

Latest by mike a: this is like when people wanted springsteen to run for governor. and like when there was a movement to make "born to run" the most unintentionally ironic state song in american history. fellow new jerseyans: they're just pop more »

one week you're in, the next you're out

Jon Bon Jovi's "Project Runway" Appearance: So Much For That Country Crossover

Sales of his band's "back to country" album have flagged, so Jon Bon Jovi is going back to what he was doing in between his duet with the Sugarland chick and the fourth time he recorded an unplugged version of "Wanted Dead Or Alive": Fashion. Or something like it! The former Versace model is the "surprise" guest on tonight's Project Runway, and he'll be judging the contestants' abilities to make him an outfit of some sort. More »

1:20 PM on Wed Nov 21 2007
By mjohnston
2,202 views, 5 comments

Latest by CarsmileSteve: i'm going to be singing wanted: bastard well dead or alive all day now, aren't i? thanks guys! more »

interviews

Jon Bon Jovi Is Not Having A Nice Day

Has Bon Jovi's attempt at a country crossover resulted in eternally grinning frontman Jon Bon Jovi getting testy? Because this Guardian interview gets tense really quickly: More »

4:35 PM on Thu Jun 7 2007
By mjohnston
2,277 views, 9 comments