Bon Jovi - 'Lost Highway' - June 19

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Bon Jovi Charges Down The 'Highway' On New CD
Bon Jovi

March 19, 2007, 11:05 AM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Bon Jovi will release its next album, "Lost Highway," June 19 via Island/Mercury Nashville. First single "(You Want To) Make a Memory" hits radio tomorrow (March 20); the group will perform it live April 16 during the CMT Awards in Nashville, May 2 on "American Idol" and June 19 on NBC's "Today."

Two other album cuts have already been utilized in TV and film; the title song is featured in the trailer for the John Travolta comedy "Wild Hogs," while "We Got It Going" featuring Big & Rich serves as the theme for ESPN's coverage of the Arena Football League.

The Dann Huff- and John Shanks-produced "Lost Highway" is the follow-up to 2005's "Have a Nice Day," which has sold 1.4 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The album's single, "Who Says You Can't Go Home" featuring Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, the first time in almost 30 years that a top billed non-country artist has reached No. 1 with their first attempt at the country chart. It hadn't happened since pop crooner Tom Jones did so with "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" in 1977.


Bon Jovi has yet to announce tour plans; the group finished 2006 with the No. 3 tour according to Billboard Boxscore, grossing $131 million.

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Did they get the name of the album from the David Lynch movie?

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It went #1 thanks to Jennifer Nettles, had she not been on it, it never would have even made the Chart. Not a fan of Bon Jovi doing Country.

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Billboard:

ARTIST: BON JOVI

SINGLE: MAKE A MEMORY

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Still pumped from last year's sold-out "Have a Nice Day" tour, Bon Jovi readies a new studio album, "Lost Highway," due in June. Lead single "(You Want To) Make a Memory" is a surprisingly sparse and intimate ballad about two long-ago lovers getting in touch again. Over a pulsing crescendo of acoustic guitars, piano and strings, Bon Jovi delivers his most soulful vocal in years, sounding relaxed and nostalgic as he offers '80s-soaked lines like "I dug up this old photograph/Look at all the hair we had." It's a classic Bon Jovi anthem -- simple, well-crafted and enormously melodic -- with guitarist Richie Sambora singing open-hearted harmonies.

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The song Lost Highway was Wild Hogs

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May 2, 9:08 PM EDT
Bon Jovi to Rock New New Jersey Arena

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey rockers Bon Jovi will be the first act to rock "The Rock," the state's newest arena, officials announced Wednesday.

The band will play several shows at the Prudential Center starting Oct. 26, said Pat Smith, a spokesman for AEG New York/New Jersey, part of Anschutz Entertainment Group, which is booking concerts and special events for the arena. The number of shows has not been determined, he said.

The $365-million arena, which will be home to the New Jersey Devils of the NHL, is under construction in downtown Newark. It can seat 19,500 for concerts.

The band, whose hits include "You Give Love a Bad Name," includes lead singer Jon Bon Jovi, a native of Sayreville.

The arena gets its name from Prudential Financial Inc., the Newark-based financial services and insurance giant whose symbol is the Rock of Gibraltar.

Tickets for Bon Jovi go on sale in mid-June.

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Video for (You Want To) Make A Memory:

music.aol.com/franchise/firstview/bon-jovi-new-video

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BILLBOARD HOT DIGITAL SONGS - TOP 50

-- 15 BON JOVI (YOU WANT TO) MAKE A MEMORY 50698 999 2578 57219
-- 25 BON JOVI WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE 38941 701 4859 411464
-- 29 BON JOVI YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME 32547 999 2708 294720
-- 30 BON JOVI LIVIN' ON A PRAYER 31590 567 4739 509731
-- 45 BON JOVI BLAZE OF GLORY 23210 999 1081 125100
-- 46 BON JOVI HAVE A NICE DAY 22624 999 1550 362459
-- 58 BON JOVI IT'S MY LIFE 17362 547 2685 341833
-- 59 BON JOVI THIS AIN'T A LOVE SONG 17354 999 68 24692
-- 90 BON JOVI WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T GO HOME 11646 241 3418 552487
-- 160 BON JOVI SHOT THROUGH THE HEART 6407 999 533 58803
-- 174 BON JOVI I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU 6127 281 1608 138808

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Their last album...

5/19 chart

RE-ENTRY 113 BON JOVI HAVE A NICE DAY 6,986 +333% 1,615 1,414,033

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Mmm, pretty tense interview to Jon. Was it before or after the album leaked earlier this week?

Question time

Jon Bon Jovi on the 'cheeky' British media, the search for notoriety and the chequebook solution to global warming

Hannah Pool
Thursday June 7, 2007
The Guardian

Your music is often defined as soft rock or rock light. How do you feel about that?

You can call it whatever you want - it's Bon Jovi.

Is that people being snobby?

It's not for me to decide what someone's perception is, darlin', it's theirs.

Do you care what reviewers think?

Is that what this interview is about?

I have a whole load of questions.

Move on.

Really?

Don't get like that.

OK. I didn't mean to upset you.

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You're not upsetting me. Don't belittle yourself. If you want to talk about music, let's talk.

I wanted to talk to you about the charity stuff you do and the political side of things. Is that cool with you?

Sure, anything's fine with me, whatever you want to talk about.

Am I right in thinking you've financially supported the Democrats? How do you think they are doing at the moment?

Too soon to tell - I'm not really paying attention to it.

Are you taking part in Live Earth?

Yes.

How important do you think it is for musicians to get together and try to raise consciousness at events such as these?

Well, I think they can be pretty important when it comes to awareness because the media will pay attention to the event, and the event, if presented properly, can be educational for those watching and listening. You know, a series of short films or passionate speeches by those who are knowledgeable can at least educate the masses, so that in their own little way maybe they can do some good in the world.

Do you carbon offset your gigs?

We do that.

Do you have to make sacrifices to do it?

You have to write a cheque. You're a lot more conscious of the amount of trucks you use and the opportunities to do things better. We wrote a cheque, we took care of our footprint and raised awareness, blah blah blah, and I've bought a hybrid.

Has your music changed as you have got older?

I'd like to think it has progressed without pandering to an audience or jumping on to bandwagons, or fads and fashions. Things came in and out of fashion. We just stayed on our own road and grew up in public. We've been making records for 24 years now. I'd like to think the body of work pretty much speaks for itself.

Is the rock industry sexist?

I don't give it much thought. I can't comment.

You must have female friends who are musicians?

I can't comment on that.

Is rock as a genre in decline?

No.

Did you have too much success too young?

No, we didn't actually. It took us three albums to get any notoriety.

But when you got it, it was pretty massive?

Yes, it was. Slippery When Wet is a phenomenon. The trick was not getting it; it was staying there.

Is it true that you hit a depression and didn't know what to do next?

Sure. There is a reason why it is called the music business. It was a drag to find out it wasn't just about music, it was about running a business, but you either get over that hump or you fall back into a lesser state of success or eventual breaking-up or obscurity or whatever.

How did you stick with it? Was it therapy?

No, no, no, crap, the English media, you guys just love this s**t, that's why I'm not a bigger "celebrity". I can't sit here and ...

What do we love? What "s**t"? What do you mean?

Forget it - I'm not even going to jab with you. So, it's just what it is.

Do you find British press tricky compared with Americans?

Cheeky. Isn't that the word for it?

You mean asking deliberately annoying questions?

[Laughs] Yeah.

Fair enough. We know how you feel about the British press. How do you feel about the audiences?

They're good, they've been great to us. It's a good way to make a living.

· Bon Jovi are opening London's O2 Arena on June 24. Their new album, Lost Highway, is out on June 11. The new single, (You Want To) Make A Memory, is out on June 25.

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Jun 7, 10:42 PM EDT
Sambora Enters L.A. Treatment Facility

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora has entered a treatment facility in Los Angeles for an undisclosed problem, a spokesperson for the band said Thursday.

"He asks that you respect he and his family's privacy at this time," her statement read. Sambora went into treatment Wednesday, People.com reported.

It wasn't clear how Sambora's treatment will affect his role in the band. Bon Jovi's new album "Lost Highway" comes out June 19, the same day the band is scheduled to appear on the "Today" show.

The group is scheduled to play some tour dates this summer, beginning June 24 in London. A larger tour is planned for 2008.

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Lol at that interview. I actually agree with Bon Jovi. The media is stupid! I like it, hehe...

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Bon Jovi, Ticketmaster bundle digital album, tickets

Sun Jun 10, 10:26 PM ET

In what's being billed as a first, Bon Jovi is bundling a digital iTunes copy of the band's upcoming album, "Lost Highway," with advance tickets for October concerts in Newark, New Jersey.

The stand, which begins October 25 and may be expanded beyond the initial five shows, will open the new Prudential Center in Newark.

The online presale program will be available exclusively to American Express cardholders beginning June 12 through June 14, and to the general public from June 15 through June 22. Tickets without the digital album download will then be available for purchase by the general public beginning June 23.

Fans who purchase the Lost Highway Ticket Package will receive a code from Ticketmaster that enables them to download "Lost Highway" from iTunes beginning on its June 19 release. The ticket/album package will be priced at $9.99 higher -- the price of the album on iTunes -- than those later sold outside the package. Album sales in the bundle will count toward SoundScan and the album's Billboard chart position.

For those fans who have already pre-ordered "Lost Highway" from BonJovi.com or iTunes, Bon Jovi and Ticketmaster have arranged for iTunes to provide a passcode that will enable them to purchase a single presale ticket for $9.99 less without adding the digital album.

The program is similar in concept to previous Ticketmaster initiatives with acts like Bob Dylan, Maroon 5 and Daddy Yankee. The difference is that the other programs offered albums and tickets in two separate sales via two separate sites.

The Bon Jovi deal is the first "all-in" presale that bundles together a ticket and a digital album as a single transaction sold via Ticketmaster.com. In this way, the promotion is more a digital version of Prince's 2005 Musicology tour, which included with the ticket price a physical version of his new album, to be picked up at the venue.

The $375 million, 18,000-capacity Prudential Center will be managed by Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) and booked by its live entertainment division, AEG Live.

Reuters/Billboard

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Richie Sambora Completes Program at Treatment Facility
WEDNESDAY JUNE 13, 2007 03:20 PM EDT

By K.C. Baker

Richie Sambora has left the Los Angeles treatment facility he entered last week, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

"Richie Sambora has completed a program at the UCLA Medical Center," a Bon Jovi rep tells PEOPLE. "He is doing well and continues to receive outside support."

Last week, Sambora's rep said in a statement that the guitarist, 47, had entered an undisclosed treatment facility in Los Angeles. The specific nature of his problem was not disclosed at the time.

It has been a trying year for Sambora. In April, his divorce from Heather Locklear was finalized, and that same month, his father died of lung cancer. His relationship with girlfriend Denise Richards also ended.

"Richie has had a terrible year," a close friend of the rocker told PEOPLE. "I think this was a culmination of all these things and finally he realized he needed to take care of himself. He'd put off everything for so long, taking care of everyone else, it was just time to stop and deal with his issues."

The group is scheduled to play some shows this summer, beginning June 24 in London, but it is a relatively light schedule.

The band's new album, Lost Highway, is due out on June 19, when Bon Jovi is scheduled to perform on the Today show, and the band will perform on The View on June 20. Sambora is expected to be at both appearances.

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That Guardian interview is yet another proof that having a sense of humor is one of the biggest signs of intelligence any person can have. And yet again, Jon Bon Jovi proves he doesn't have an ounce of it.

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USA Today: Bon Jovi rocks a country album

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Debuts at #2 in the UK.

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Billboard:

ARTIST: BON JOVI

ALBUM: LOST HIGHWAY (Mercury Nashville)

Inspired by the crossover success of "Who Says You Can't Go Home," a No. 1 hit on country radio, Bon Jovi gives its open-hearted stadium rock a Nashville makeover. "Lost Highway" is a collection of carefully country-flavored, classic-sounding tunes emphasizing acoustic guitars and personal storytelling -- from the regretful "Whole Lot of Leaving" and the breezy "Any Other Day" to the charming "Seat Next to You." Making new friends, the boys party-rock with Big & Rich ("We Got It Goin' On") and slow-dance with LeAnn Rimes on "Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore," an intimate duet. Old fans may gasp at the fiddles on the opening title track, and somewhere out there, Keith Urban will blush. But this is an exciting new chapter for Bon Jovi, one that started more than 20 years ago with the line, "I'm a cowboy/On a steel horse I ride."

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Jun 18, 12:58 PM EDT
Bon Jovi Channels Turmoil in New CD

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- They still look like the Bon Jovi of old - with their leather jackets and jeans. And they still act like the boys from New Jersey, proud of their musical brotherhood that spawned numerous hit albums and No. 1 singles.

But still, there is something different, something unexpected from one of the biggest rock bands of the past few decades. At first listen, it's their sound. It's well ... different. And perhaps even more surprising, it's intentional, they say.

Fresh off their crossover success with a country remake of "Who Says You Can't Go Home" with Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles, which earned them the sole Grammy of their 25-year career, Bon Jovi is releasing the country-influenced album "Lost Highway" on Tuesday on Island Records. And nobody in the band seems sure what the reception will be - from their fans to the country music industry.

"Who knows? This record might be over in three weeks. Or it might have 10 singles on it," Jon Bon Jovi said during a recent interview.

"I just found myself listening to this kind of music, and finding that they were telling stories. That's something we've been doing our whole career," he said. "So it was very much a fit for us."

But while the albums of Bon Jovi's career have tended in the past decade to be more socially or politically influenced ("Bounce" was inspired by 9/11, "Have a Nice Day" followed the presidential election), this album appears to be personal, filled with stories inspired by the band members' lives, loves and losses. And for a group that has made every effort to avoid tabloid headlines and VH1-style "Behind the Music" stories, the band has had more than enough of those moments to go around in the past few years.

It was the inspiration behind the album, which despite its lukewarm reception from critics has already received a fair amount of airplay for its first single "(You Want to) Make a Memory."

"Richie (Sambora) and David (Bryan) suffered a lot in the last year, a lot of pain. In what had been a very peaceful decade and a half, suddenly there was a lot of pain in the organization," Bon Jovi said. "I think it was cathartic for Richie to express with me or through me the hell he has been dealing with: losing his dad, losing the wife. And David, it's the same thing. So it was an easy record to write."

Bryan, who broke up with his wife recently, said Bon Jovi is always looking for musical subject matter. "There's some personal turmoils that showed up on this record. It's a cleansing process, I think."

In what Sambora told the AP was one of his first sit-down interviews in two years, following the breakup with his wife, Heather Locklear, and his romance with her friend Denise Richards (the two have since split), he said the songs reflect the heartache.

"It's interesting, the changes I've gone through in my life. I think I've brought a lot of the dramatics here within the lyric in a bunch of different places - just from the stuff that's been going on with me. I think even the songs I didn't write with Jon, I think he used me as his muse."

Sambora said the band closed ranks around him during the recent death of his father, who died of lung cancer, to help him get through it.

"They were unbelievable. We're a tight group. Everybody goes through their own stuff, and everybody supports each other while they go through it no matter what it is."

During the interview, he was joined by drummer Tico Torres.

"It's all part of a relationship. You get through it, together," he said, looking over at Sambora. (A short time after the interview, Sambora entered a Los Angeles-area rehabilitation center for an undisclosed condition. The band has said he will be joining them this month for a scheduled performance.)

It's perhaps this relationship among band mates that is laid open in the song "A Whole Lot of Leaving," a song that clearly invites the country music influence onto the album.

Bon Jovi said he knows the success of the country remake of "Who Says You Can't Go Home" laid a welcome mat of sorts for them in Nashville, Tenn. But he added: "I'm not a carpetbagger."

He quickly pointed out that he and Sambora have been making trips to Nashville for years to meet with artists, producers or to find inspiration for their musical storytelling.

And he dismissed the "Bon Jovi goes country" label.

"Listen to it. I don't think it's that different than a Bon Jovi record. It's not a Bon Jovi does country record," he said. "I think I was at fault for trying to explain myself, for misrepresenting us, for saying we're going to Nashville to make a country record."

Country music, he said, is the music of Alan Jackson and Vince Gill. He said "Lost Highway" is much more in tune with country-to-rock crossover artists such as Sugarland and Big & Rich, who also make an appearance on the album's rocking "We Got It Going On" number.

As the band readies to release its new album, the irony of a rock band winning its only Grammy in a country music category for a remake is not lost on Bon Jovi.

"We were a nine-time Grammy loser. Nine times," Sambora said. "The juxtaposition is really crazy."

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Reviewed by Edna Gundersen
USA Today

Bon Jovi, Lost Highway: * * * (out of four) Country-flavored arena rock

Jon Bon Jovi’s warm vocals anchor the band’s 10th studio album, which bears a faint twang and plenty of story songs about plain folks and long drives. The sparingly applied Nashville stylings have an authentic feel, but the Jersey boys haven’t abandoned the fat choruses, arena-sized hooks and flashy ax-slinging that made them rock heroes on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.

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Out today in the USA!!

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HITS has an early prediction of 200k in its first week at retail.

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areyoureadytojump said:

Out today in the USA!!

I got mine and it is fabulous!!!!!!!!

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Just watched their Unplugged performance on Vh1. Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore' (duet with LeAnn) sounded so beautiful live.

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I picked this up yesterday and love it love it love it ......

I could not care less if it is traditional country or not, it is a great album and I love the hillary lindsey cut as well as the duet with leann :)

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Billboard.biz:

• To quote Bon Jovi's 2006 No. 1 hit, "Who Says You Can't Go Home"? Home, that is, to the top of The Billboard 200, where the band claims its first No. 1 album since 1988. Its new "Lost Highway" starts with 292,000 units -- the act's biggest sales frame since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. Previously, the group's best sales week came when its last album, 2005's "Have a Nice Day," bowed at No. 2 with 202,000.

The band has expanded its fan base to include country music devotees, thanks to its No. 1 Hot Country Songs hit "Who Says You Can't Go Home" with Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles. "Lost Highway" was recorded partially in Nashville with half of the album's cuts produced by Dann Huff. (He has helmed 17 No. 1s on the Country Songs chart.)

The set also boasts guest turns from country stars LeAnn Rimes and Big & Rich. Still, the album doesn't stray far from Bon Jovi's familiar rock sound -- despite its Nashville influences -- and it does not chart on Top Country Albums.

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Jun 18, 12:06 PM EDT
Music Review: Bon Jovi Gets Country

By WAYNE PARRY
Associated Press Writer

Bon Jovi, "Lost Highway" (Island)

Yo, Jonnie! I see you been spending some time in Nashville lately, and as one Jersey Guy to another (I'm Exit 90, you're Exit 109), I gotta tell you some stuff.

I was kinda worried when Bon Jovi started doing a country-inspired album. Now I can't argue with success, and you guys sure sold a bunch of records last year doing "Who Says You Can't Go Home" with Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, which even won a Grammy. So another duet, this time on "Stranger" with LeAnn Rimes, sounds like a smart career move.

And I hear some slide guitars here and there; is that a banjo on the title track?

But I am glad to see you kept the faith with New Jersey on songs like "Summertime," a big, brash, bombastic stadium rock anthem with power chords that reach from Carteret to Cape May.

And "We Got It Going On" is pure Bon Jovi rock candy, with a danceable beat and another incarnation of Richie Sambora's famous voice-box wah-wah chords that made "It's My Life" so tasty.

From the fast lane (actually is there any other kind?) of the New Jersey Turnpike, we can only hope you're talking about Sayreville or East Rutherford or even Newark for that matter when you sing "I Love This Town," and not Nashville or Tupelo or Branson.

We've already lost The Sopranos this year. We gotta hold on to what we got. And I guess it doesn't make a difference if it's country or not. But please, Jonnie: Remember where you came from. I'm just sayin'.

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7/7 chart:

1 NEW Bon Jovi - Lost Highway 291,532 / 291,933

129 RE-ENTRY BON JOVI HAVE A NICE DAY 5,738 3,921 46 1,443,636

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USAToday.com:

Bon Jovi's biggest SoundScan sellers

Now that Bon Jovi reigns on the Billboard album chart again, just as if it were the late '80s, it seemed like a good time to make the band the next subject of the recurring series on SoundScan Era Best Sellers.

Bon Jovi's peak came in 1986, with the 12-times-platinum Slippery When Wet, and 1988, with New Jersey, which went septuple platinum. (Always wanted to use "septuple platinum" in a sentence. Now I have. What's left for me to achieve?) New Jersey doesn't make the top five SoundScan list (SoundScan started tabulating sales electronically in late 1991), but Slippery does.

But No. 1 is the 1994 album Cross Road, which has sold 4.2 million copies. Slippery finishes second, with 2.9 million (meaning, if its RIAA platinum numbers are close to reality, it sold more than 9 million in the pre-SoundScan era.

2000's Crush is No. 3, with 2.0 million, followed by 1992's Keep the Faith at 1.6 million and the most recent album before Lost Highway, 2005's Have a Nice Day, which has sold 1.4 million. We'll see if Highway can break into that select group.

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Down two places to #3 on the new Billboard 200.