Article: Years bring rewards to Bon Jovi, including a new, mature album.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

before a concert at London's Wembley Stadium. Hagar complained that his throat hurt.

Bon Jovi was empathetic. But not entirely sympathetic.

``Us lead singers have to stick together,'' Bon Jovi, 33, says by phone as Van Halen takes the stage. ``I told him `Mine is hurting, too. Now get your ass out there and sing.'''

The advice may seem a little heady for Bon Jovi to offer Hagar _ who is, after all, a decade and a half his senior and was making albums while Bon Jovi was sweeping floors at his cousin's New York recording studio. But at this juncture, the New Jersey rocker enjoys a formidable stature himself.

It has been 11 years since ``Runaway'' ...

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