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Article: Bon Jovi forever; New Jersey hair rockers survived to thrive.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- June 4, 2008
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Byline: Jed Gottlieb
If you were sitting around a junior high cafeteria table in 1988 guessing at the top concert draw of 2008, would anyone have bet on Bon Jovi? Maybe.
But there would probably have been an equal amount of lobbying for Whitesnake, White Lion and Cinderella. If you took the debate out of the junior high and to the editors of music magazines, Bon Jovi's chances would have been laughable - a hair band packing stadiums in 2008? That ain't ever gonna happen.
And yet, here we are. New Jersey's second-most-beloved rock heroes play TD Banknorth Garden on Wednesday and Thursday. Two decades on and Bon Jovi is on track to have this ...