![]() ![]() New Jersey was a wonderful, hard-working blue collar place to grow up in. It was 1978 then, and 1980 when I graduated from high school. ![]() When I was 16, and in the place where I lived, there was a lot of optimism. By the time I was 17 I had my first band in New Jersey and I was determined I’d be making records and singing in a band and making my living doing that. He tells Jane Graham about how his life has panned out. Because even if you truly weren’t any good at your craft, if you believed you were, you could work on it.”īut there have also been “dark” times in his career, he said, especially while facing the stresses of non-stop touring. “They always instilled that confidence in their kids which, in retrospect, I realise was so incredibly valuable. “What I got from my parents was the ability to make the dream reality,” he says in The Big Issue’s Letter To My Younger Self. ![]() His first talent show performance was “terrible”, he says, but his parents supported him nonetheless, turning a blind eye to coming home from bars at one or two in the morning as long as he was up and in school at 8am. ![]() Of course, back then anyway, “making it” for young Johnny Bongiovi just meant carrying on playing in bars. Conspiring with his school friends in Atlantic City Expressway how about they would eventually make it took up all his thoughts. When Jon Bon Jovi was playing in New Jersey bars as a 17-year-old high schooler, that’s all he wanted to be. ![]()
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