Saturday April 16, 2022 “Runaway” Bon Jovi
Given this game’s arbitrary ‘rules’ and yesterday’s song by Soul Asylum, “Runaway Train” you had to know we would end up with one of the many ‘runaway’ songs and sure enough here we are with Bon Jovi’s “Runaway”.
We all of course remember when Jon Bongiovi burst onto the music scene with his 1980 recording “"R2-D2 We Wish You A Merry Christmas", recorded in his cousin’s studio, the Power Station. That would have been three years before he formed the band who were initially called Johnny Electric before settling in on BonJovi.
Jon Bongiovi is an interesting man, a huge rock star yet married for over thirty years to his high school sweetheart, the father of four children, a generous philanthropist dedicating his time, his celebrity and his money to many causes and he is supposedly a blood relative of Frank Sinatra.
He is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, has appeared in a number of movies with critically acclaimed performances, produced Cher’s 1987 comeback album titled Cher, has sold over 130 million Bon Jovi records and recently introduced a rose wine, Hampton Water with his Notre Dame graduate son Jesse.
Well that ends our connect the musical dots game, and I bet you’ve just let out a big sigh of relief. On to something hopefully less foolish next week…maybe.
Stay safe and well…and with more than 124 million views I bet Jon Bongiovi, 59 years old in 2022, is embarrassed when he watches this video today and realizes that the preening lead singer in this video is him.