Bon Jovi Receives Hero’s Welcome at SXSW Docuseries Premiere

Austin is a great distance from Sayreville, New Jersey, however Bon Jovi obtained a hometown hero’s welcome all the identical after they arrived at SXSW on Thursday for the premiere of their upcoming Hulu docuseries, Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story.

The band appeared at the Paramount Theatre alongside Thank You, Goodnight director Gotham Chopra and his father and creator Deepak Chopra, who moderated a brief Q&A with singer Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan and drummer Tico Torres. Before that, although, the viewers watched the primary episode of the four-part docuseries, which can debut on April 26 on Hulu and Disney+ internationally.

The first episode, filmed in 2022, units the stage for Bon Jovi’s impending fortieth anniversary (which came about in 2023), and the band is seen rehearsing extensively for a 15-date area tour. It’s not all smiles and heat, fuzzy nostalgia although: As followers now know, Jon Bon Jovi was combating vocal points that finally required him to bear medialization surgical procedure to regain correct perform of his atrophied vocal twine.

This modern-day footage is interspersed with archival footage and storytelling to chronicle the rise of Bon Jovi from a scrappy Jersey Shore bar band to stadium-filling superstars. Episode one naturally focuses on the early days and hits all of the anticipated rock-doc beats, however Thank You, Goodnight options sufficient ancillary gamers from the Bon Jovi universe and past to maintain issues attention-grabbing — and it ends on a cliffhanger of types that may have followers smashing the “play next” button (and had the SXSW crowd roaring with applause).

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Bon Jovi Discusses New Song and Album at SXSW Film Premiere

Thursday was a momentous day for Bon Jovi for extra causes than the Thank You, Goodnight premiere. The band additionally launched its new single “Legendary” and introduced its upcoming album Forever, out June 7. Jon Bon Jovi touched on each whereas chatting with Chopra after the screening.

“The release of ‘Legendary’ today and the forthcoming album is just all about joy,” the frontman mentioned. “And it’s that pursuit of excellence so that if and when we tour again, that we can go out there and truly embrace it, just sheer pleasure. And that’s all that matters: nothing more than the sheer pleasure of looking at the guys that I want to be with on that stage, and singing these songs for you.”