Jon Bon Jovi just isn’t a fan of his band’s early music movies, going so far as calling them horrible in a brand new interview. In a current chat with SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen, the frontman mentioned Bon Jovi’s movies from their first two albums, Bon Jovi and 7800 Degrees Fahrenheit, and the way his inexperience led to some regrettable promotional clips. He spoke particularly about their 1984 debut single, “Runaway.”
“I was taking the bus in and out of Manhattan, working at a recording studio,” Bon Jovi defined. “I was fortunate enough to work at the recording studio. Others were working the bus station, if you know what I mean. You know, they were walking the streets around the tunnel, and that’s where the inspiration for the song came to me.”
But then it got here time to make a video for the one. “‘Wait a minute, I just learned to play the guitar and write a song. You want me to be a filmmaker? What the hell do I know?'” Bon Jovi recalled pondering.
“I fell for it hook, line and sinker, and the stupid record company with the stupid video director who says Fahrenheit 451 or whatever with his niece starring in the video, it’s like Jesus God. You want to embarrass me? Tie me to a chair and make me watch videos from my first two albums.”
Watch Bon Jovi’s ‘Runaway’ Video
Bon Jovi famous that it took two full album cycles for the band to appreciate what labored greatest for them in movies. “We were smart enough by the third album – it took three albums to figure out: Just promote the live show with a video,” he mentioned. “So by ‘You Give Love a Bad Name,’ ‘Livin’ on a Prayer,’ ‘Wanted Dead or Alive,’ those are really just performance videos, and that’s when we realized this is all that matters.”
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