By Steve Newton
I did the third of my three interviews with Jon Bon Jovi on June 18 of 1987, when his band was touring behind its hugely popular third LP, Slippery When Wet.
Three days earlier the group had released the power ballad “Never Say Goodbye” as the fourth single from that LP, following the massive hits “Wanted Dead or Alive”, “You Give Love a Bad Name”, and Bon Jovi’s signature song, “Livin’ On a Prayer”.
At the time Slippery When Wet had already sold over nine-million copies worldwide, and the buzz on Bon Jovi was so big that you could hardly walk into a magazine shop without seeing his face on the covers of half a dozen teen fanzines.
At one point in the conversation I asked the 25-year-old glam-metal superstar if he was worried at all about over-exposure and media burn-out.
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