Bon Jovi to release duets version of ‘Forever’ album
Jon Bon Jovi at Planet Rock
Author: Scott ColothanPublished 53 minutes ago
Jon Bon Jovi has confirmed that Bon Jovi will release a duets version of their 16th studio album ‘Forever.’
Released in June 2024, ‘Forever’ featured the Planet Rock playlisted singles ‘Legendary’ and ‘Living Proof’, and the 12-track record charted at Number 3 in the UK.
Bon Jovi have so far been unable to tour ‘Forever’ as Jon Bon Jovi is still recovering from surgery for an atrophied vocal cord.
In an interview Joe Matera, Jon said that while sidelined from singing live his main focus recently has been creating a new version of ‘Forever’ featuring as-yet-undisclosed guest singers.
Praising the original album, Jon enthused: “This is an album that we’re very proud of, and I think it’s the best Bon Jovi record since ‘Lost Highway’ or at least ‘Have A Nice Day’.
“We love every song on it and it was a joy to make this album, but I just wasn’t ready to go and book shows post-surgery recovery.
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“So, I reached out to a number of friends and I said, ‘If you guys would sing a verse here and there, it’ll give this great album another life.'”
He continued: “My focus moving forward is on the re-release of ‘Forever’, and God willing, getting back out on the road and running that project through its life.”
Speaking to Planet Rock’s Mark Jeeves last year, Jon Bon Jovi said he still hopes to take ‘Forever’ on the road someday.
“I do hope so,” Jon said at the time. “We’re getting dangerously close (to performing live again). I’m improving all the time. Even since I saw you last (six weeks ago) there’s been improvements.
“It’s a bitch because your vocal cords are as big as your thumbnail, so that’s as big as the whole (thing) is – it’s that big! But, y’know, I’m working hard and I’m feeling better every day and it’s been two years (since Bon Jovi’s last full gig) and it has sucked!
“BUT, I wake up in the morning and my voice is clear and I go to bed at night and I know it still works. So, it’s just getting better every day.”
The childhood homes of famous rock stars, including Jon Bon Jovi:
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Angus and Malcolm Young’s childhood home
The youngest of eight siblings born in Scotland, Angus and Malcolm Young emigrated to Australia in 1963 with their parents William and Margaret and older brothers and sisters, including future AC/DC producer George. Initially living at the Villawood Migrant Hostel, in 1965 the Youngs moved to 4 Burleigh Street in the Sydney suburb of Burwood where Angus and Malcolm were raised. The brothers also formed AC/DC while living at the semi-detached house. Despite being added to Australia’s National Trust Register of Historic Houses in 2013, the house was “accidentally” demolished by developers in December 2024 to make way for a residential development.
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Joe Elliott’s childhood home
Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott was born and raised at 61 Crookes Road in Sheffield. Ahead of Def Leppard’s homecoming gigs at The Leadmill and Bramall Lane in May 2023, Joe visited the property. He wrote: “The house I was born in, grew up in, met Sav & Tony Kenning for the very time in that upstairs room you can see above me …. Sigh …. Memories!!”
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Ozzy Osbourne’s childhood home
One of six children, Ozzy Osbourne spent his formative years in this small two-bedroom terraced house on Lodge Road in Aston. Ozzy told Huffington Post in 2014: “I’ve been back to that house a few times over the years and I can’t believe there were eight of us living in a two-and-a-half-bedroom house. It is tiny! I have wardrobes bigger in my house.”
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John Lennon’s childhood home
Now a lovingly restored Grade II listed building preserved by the National Trust, John Lennon lived at 251 Menlove Avenue in Liverpool with his Aunt Mimi from 1945 to 1963. It featured on the cover to Oasis single ‘Live Forever’ in 1994 and in 2000 it was adorned with an English Heritage blue plaque.
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Paul McCartney’s childhood home
Sir Paul McCartney’s childhood home at 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton, south Liverpool. It became a listed building in 2012 and is owned by the National Trust. The Trust markets the house as “the birthplace of the Beatles” as it was where McCartney and Lennon penned the earliest Beatles songs.
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Ringo Starr’s childhood home
Ringo Starr (aka Richard Starkey) spent his very early childhood years at a terraced house on Madryn Street in Liverpool but moved to at two-up, two-down house 10 Admiral Grove in Dingle when he was 3 with mum Elsie when his parents separated. He lived there for the next 20 years. Pictured is 10 Admiral Grove in 1964.
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David Bowie’s childhood home
40 Stansfield Road in Brixton where a young David Jones – aka David Bowie – lived until he was six years old. The house became a shrine for Bowie when the music legend died in January 2016.
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Kurt Cobain’s childhood home
Kurt Cobain’s childhood home in Aberdeen, Washington. Nirvana fan Lee Bacon bought the house in 2018 for $225,000 (around £170,000) and told Rolling Stone: “My goal is to preserve and restore it for my generation and for my kids.”
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Kurt Cobain’s childhood home
Kurt Cobain’s Led Zeppelin graffiti is still on the walls in his attic bedroom.
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Little Richard’s childhood home
The late rock and roll pioneer was brought up alongside his eleven siblings in this detached home in the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood of Macon, Georgia in the 1930s and 40s. Now named The Little Richard Resource Center, the home is now open to the public and hosts a number of community events.
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Bruce Springsteen’s childhood home
Bruce Springsteen grew up in this home at 39 1/2 Institute Street in Freehold, New Jersey from the years 1955 to 1962. It was while living at this house aged 7 in 1956 that Springsteen witnessed Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show and decided he wanted to be a musician himself.
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Johnny Cash’s childhood home
Meticulously restored in 2014 thanks to funds from Arkansas State University, Johnny Cash’s boyhood home is in the tiny town of Dyess, Arkansas.
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Jim Morrison’s childhood home
Jim Morrison’s home in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he lived in his teens while his dad worked at the nearby Kirtland Air Force Base.
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Bono’s childhood home
Paul ‘Bono’ Hewson’s parents bought this house on Cedarwood Road, Dublin seven weeks after his birth in 1960 and he spent his entire childhood here. The U2 song ‘Cedarwood Road’ on their 2014 album ‘Songs of Innocence’ is a nostalgic musical celebration of Bono’s boyhood abode.
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Freddie Mercury’s childhood home
Aged 17, Freddie Mercury and his family fled the Zanzibar revolution to live at 22 Gladstone Avenue in Feltham, West London. Pictured is Queen’s Brian May and Freddie’s younger sister Kashmira Cooke at the unveiling of a Blue Plaque at the house in September 2016.
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Lars Ulrich’s childhood home
Lars Ulrich lived in this uniquely designed property in Hellerup, Denmark with his family until he moved to America aged 17.
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Mick Jagger’s childhood home
Sir Mick Jagger was brought up in this semi-detached house in Dartford, Kent. His future bandmate Keith Richards lived just around the corner.
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Keith Richards’ childhood home
Keith Richards spent the first six years of his life living in this two-bedroom flat above a florists in Dartford, Kent.
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Axl Rose’s childhood home
Axl Rose lived at this humble Lafayette, Indiana house from 1962 to 1982 before moving to Los Angeles in his early twenties.
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Marc Bolan’s childhood home
The young Mark Field (Marc Bolan) lived at this terraced property on Stoke Newington Common, London from his birth in 1947 to aged 15 in 1962. In 2005, the London Borough of Hackney honoured Bolan with a plaque outside the property.
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Elvis Presley’s childhood home
The humble two-bedroom house in Tupelo, Mississippi where The King himself Elvis Presley was born on 8th January 1935. It was built by his father Vernon after he successfully secured a $180 loan.
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Jon Bon Jovi’s childhood home
John Francis Bongiovi Jr.’s childhood home in Sayreville, New Jersey. Astonishingly, MTV bought the home in 1989 and gave it away in a competition. Jon Bon Jovi was reported to be “angry” at the publicity stunt and the competition winner soon sold the property.
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