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Article: Bon voyage ; It's almost 25 years since Bon Jovi shot to fame with their big ballads and even bigger hair. On the eve of their latest sell-out tour, Jon Bon Jovi tells David Usborne why it hasn't all been plain sailing
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 23, 2007
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If by chance you have tickets for the veteran American
rock'n'roll band Bon Jovi, opening the revamped O2 Arena in London's
Docklands tomorrow night, you will want to be sure the concert's not
cancelled at the last moment. For here is something not entirely
reassuring: the lead singer has his doubts. "I have told the
promoter that I'll believe it when I see it," Jon Bon Jovi says.
It was 1983 when the boys with tight leather trousers and massive
hair first burst on to the pop scene in America and started a
blinding streak of success that has lasted longer than some of its
younger fans have been out of nappies. But not everyone can be Mick