• 8 months ago
Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story features 40 years of personal videos, unreleased early demos, original lyrics and never before seen photos.
Transcript
00:00 [MUSIC - THE KING, "BAD NAME"]
00:01 Shot through the heart, and you're to blame.
00:05 You give love a bad name.
00:09 I got a story to tell.
00:12 I'm excited.
00:12 Are we telling the truth, or are we going to lie?
00:14 What are we going to do?
00:16 There was no plan B in my life, ever, on Jovie, Whistle,
00:20 or nothing.
00:21 Five guys from nowhere, and if you work hard enough
00:23 and you dream big enough, you can make it.
00:26 There's some young kid around here from New Jersey
00:28 who's making some noise.
00:29 They gave me the opportunity to record
00:31 on weekends and nights.
00:32 We would go in at like 4 in the morning
00:34 and start doing original songs.
00:35 Y'all know it's like bad medicine.
00:39 And bad medicine is what I need.
00:43 This sonic boom happened.
00:45 The energy of the band, undeniable,
00:48 like a freight train coming at you.
00:50 How bad for a bunch of kids from New Jersey
00:53 putting their backs to it?
00:55 Some of the songs I wrote in my bedroom in New Jersey,
00:59 I remember the day we wrote "Live in a Prayer,"
01:01 not thinking much of the song.
01:02 I said, that's the best song we've written to date.
01:04 John's choruses demand to be sung
01:07 by 20,000 people in an arena.
01:08 We were just crushing it.
01:15 Anything that every one of those bands talks about, we did it.
01:18 It was real.
01:20 It was a real thing.
01:22 It was a real thing.
01:23 It was a real thing.
01:24 It was a real thing.
01:25 It was a real thing.
01:26 It was a real thing.
01:27 It destroyed my marriage.
01:28 But I don't think I should have been married at that time,
01:30 anyway.
01:31 They almost killed us.
01:32 Every night was a war.
01:33 I don't regret leaving, but I regret how I did it.
01:36 Nobody expected Richie to quit in the middle of the night.
01:39 It was heartbreaking.
01:40 It was taking a toll.
01:41 I went out of here.
01:42 And what I meant was, out of Bon Jovi.
01:44 (SINGING) Oh, we gotta hold on.
01:49 One thing you can't be in this world is a quitter.
01:52 So there's no way we're going to slow down.
01:56 This is the real me, the gray hair, the whole 10 yards.
02:00 John's going through his challenges.
02:01 I'm optimistic, but I'm scared.
02:04 I don't know if there's going to be a happy ending.
02:06 With every decade comes another life's lesson.
02:08 It's all or nothing.
02:11 That's why the legacy matters.
02:12 (SINGING) Oh, we're halfway there.
02:16 Regrets add key changes.
02:20 You can't be 60 years old and expect to hit that note
02:22 anymore.
02:23 (SINGING) We're halfway.
02:25 ♪ Yeah ♪