Bon Jovi announces new ‘feel good’ album ‘Forever’

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Bon Jovi are celebrating their 40th anniversary with the release of a new album entitled Forever.

The New Jersey rockers dropped the first single, Legendary, ahead of the premiere of their new documentary Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, a four-part docuseries that will hit Disney+ next month.

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“This record is a return to joy. From the writing, through the recording process, this is turn up the volume, feel good Bon Jovi,” frontman Jon Bon Jovi, 62, said in a statement Thursday.

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Forever, the band’s 16th studio album, will arrive June 7th and marks the group’s first release since their album 2020, which came out four years ago.

In addition to Jon Bon Jovi on vocals, the album will feature keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, bassist Hugh McDonald and guitarist Phil X.

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The disc will continue Bon Jovi’s 40th anniversary festivities, which included their lead singer being named MusiCares Person of the Yea at last month’s Grammy Awards. The honour featured an all-star tribute concert at the L.A. Convention Center that boasted performances by Bruce Springsteen, Shania Twain, Melissa Etheridge, Sammy Hagar, Jason Isbell, Jelly Roll, Pat Monahan of Train, and many others.

With over 130 million albums sold worldwide, the group’s last record was released at the height of the pandemic and Bon Jovi told Postmedia in an interview that he wanted his namesake band to be about something more. Songs about the murder of George Floyd (American Reckoning), mass shootings (Lower the Flag) and the political divide in America (Blood in the Water) all featured on the disc.

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“What I hope people see in the album is just that I’m bearing witness,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer said. “I’m open enough in all of my senses to be able to see and then say what it is that I’m witnessing. In doing so, I don’t want to take sides. I just want to bear witness the way a reporter would or a historian does. I just want to say, ‘This is what happened,’ with no embellishments.”

Forty years after the release of the band’s self-titled debut album, Bon Jovi said that his goals were the same as they were when he first started.

“To this day, I don’t know that I really believe that we’ve achieved what I was hoping to do,” the singer-songwriter told Postmedia in 2020. “It’s just that constant desire to do better than last time. And I don’t mean that in measuring chart success, or records sold. It’s the artistic feeling that I get when I write a song, because that — more than recording it or performing it live — is the closest thing that a songwriter has to immortality. That is the ultimate goal in our business — to write a song that is going to outlive you.”

Forever is now available for pre-order HERE where fans can find exclusive coloured vinyl options, CDs, cassettes, and limited edition signed copies.

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Bon Jovi are celebrating their 40th anniversary with the release of a new album entitled Forever.

The New Jersey rockers dropped the first single, Legendary, ahead of the premiere of their new documentary Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, a four-part docuseries that will hit Disney+ next month.

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“This record is a return to joy. From the writing, through the recording process, this is turn up the volume, feel good Bon Jovi,” frontman Jon Bon Jovi, 62, said in a statement Thursday.

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Forever, the band’s 16th studio album, will arrive June 7th and marks the group’s first release since their album 2020, which came out four years ago.

In addition to Jon Bon Jovi on vocals, the album will feature keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, bassist Hugh McDonald and guitarist Phil X.

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The disc will continue Bon Jovi’s 40th anniversary festivities, which included their lead singer being named MusiCares Person of the Yea at last month’s Grammy Awards. The honour featured an all-star tribute concert at the L.A. Convention Center that boasted performances by Bruce Springsteen, Shania Twain, Melissa Etheridge, Sammy Hagar, Jason Isbell, Jelly Roll, Pat Monahan of Train, and many others.

With over 130 million albums sold worldwide, the group’s last record was released at the height of the pandemic and Bon Jovi told Postmedia in an interview that he wanted his namesake band to be about something more. Songs about the murder of George Floyd (American Reckoning), mass shootings (Lower the Flag) and the political divide in America (Blood in the Water) all featured on the disc.

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“What I hope people see in the album is just that I’m bearing witness,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer said. “I’m open enough in all of my senses to be able to see and then say what it is that I’m witnessing. In doing so, I don’t want to take sides. I just want to bear witness the way a reporter would or a historian does. I just want to say, ‘This is what happened,’ with no embellishments.”

Forty years after the release of the band’s self-titled debut album, Bon Jovi said that his goals were the same as they were when he first started.

“To this day, I don’t know that I really believe that we’ve achieved what I was hoping to do,” the singer-songwriter told Postmedia in 2020. “It’s just that constant desire to do better than last time. And I don’t mean that in measuring chart success, or records sold. It’s the artistic feeling that I get when I write a song, because that — more than recording it or performing it live — is the closest thing that a songwriter has to immortality. That is the ultimate goal in our business — to write a song that is going to outlive you.”

Forever is now available for pre-order HERE where fans can find exclusive coloured vinyl options, CDs, cassettes, and limited edition signed copies.

[email protected]

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