{"id":26,"date":"2015-01-25T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T14:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/?p=26"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:05:06","slug":"bon-jovi-hyde-park-5th-july-2013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Bon Jovi – Hyde Park, 5th July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JBJ, July 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I was once watching a random music channel with my brother, and Bon Jovi’s You Give Love a Bad Name<\/em> came on. We sat watching the video, and my brother said \u201cthose videos just look like they were so much fun to make\u201d. I was half listening to what he was saying and half transfixed by Jon Bon Jovi. Once I\u2019d watched that video, I went away and researched the band and managed to find a video online made up of 5-second clips\u00a0from every song recorded by Bon Jovi to the present day. I played that video every day religiously, learnt the order of those songs and wrote down the name of the ones I liked the most and thus began my obsession, quite literally overnight. I listened to little else for months, and one day, my dad asked me \u201cwhat is it about that band in particular? What brought on this sudden overnight obsession?\u201d – the answer lay somewhere in the combination of live videos, hooks and the hair. <\/p>\n\n\n

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JBJ, July 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Fast forward a year or two, and they\u2019re still easily my favourite band (this is before I properly discovered Def Leppard\u00a0\u2013 but more on that later), so when I heard that they were doing a world tour, I got a little bit excited. However, my hopes were crushed when there was no mention of a London date. For months, nothing. Just as I lost hope, Jon Bon Jovi appeared on TV stating that the band was to play the British Summer Time Festival in Hyde Park in the summer.

I managed to swing the afternoon off school to go to London early and get a good place. The atmosphere around Hyde Park was amazing \u2013 roasting day, and I nearly got heatstroke standing in the same spot for three hours, but I wasn’t losing pole position by the barrier. Then, the last opening act finished, and the long wait was over. David Bryan and Tico Torres appeared, followed by Richie Sambora. Then, finally, finally, on walked Jon Bon Jovi, in a bright red vest and holding an acoustic guitar. They opened with\u00a0You Give Love a Bad Name<\/em> and my life was complete. They went on\u00a0to perform practically every song that they\u2019d ever written post-Slippery<\/em>, as well as performing tracks from their latest album,\u00a0What About Now<\/em>.\u00a0Bad Medicine<\/em>,\u00a0Raise Your Hands<\/em>, It\u2019s My Life<\/em>\u00a0all preceded the encore, which everyone was waiting for. The lights went down, and there was a single spotlight. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to hold on, to what we\u2019ve got..doesn\u2019t make a difference if we make it or not\u2026.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and the whole of Hyde Park went mad. There is nothing like being in a crowd of thousands of people screaming the chorus to Livin’ On a Prayer<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes even now, I’ll listen to a Bon Jovi song and reflexively expect to hear another one, and I’ve since realised that it’s because I can still recite the order of the songs in that video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was once watching a random music channel with my brother, and Bon Jovi’s You Give Love a Bad Name came on. We sat watching the video, and my brother said \u201cthose videos just look like they were so much fun to make\u201d. I was half listening to what he was saying and half transfixed … Continue reading Bon Jovi – Hyde Park, 5th July 2013<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}