Deborah Linton
IT might have been a cold damp night in Manchester but to Jon Bon Jovi it was 'like taking a shower with 45,000 of his closest friends'.
"Let's turn up the fire baby," he told the crowd at Lancashire County Cricket Club as the US rock icons kicked off last night's show against a grey sky.
The veteran group, formed nearly three decades ago, thrilled their sea of fans as they stormed through a set featuring hits from their backcatalogue.
Frontman Bon Jovi, who has notched up a string of sexiest male accolades in his time, thrilled the women in the crowd even more when he said: "I like to hear the girls scream."
A leg brace to support an on-stage knee injury didn't stop the 49-year-old singer from getting the crowd going with You Give Love a Bad Name and In These Arms.
Although the audience dipped at times, the anthem It's My Life and a version of Bad Medicine, drawn out for the best part of 15 minutes, stoked the crowd's enthusiasm.
Fans queued through the day, with the most die-hard supporters setting up camp outside the stadium on Thursday night to get a prime spot by the stage.
Listed among the top touring act of the past decade, the New Jersey group have already played to 1.5m on the first leg of their tour.
If that wasn't enough, they were named second in Forbes magazine's ranking of the highest earning musicians of 2010.
During their 28-year career, the group notch up over 120m record sales and play a monumental 2,600 concerts, including hundreds of sell-out shows, to over 34 million fans around the world.
And their frontman has even dabbled in politics, being appointed to President Obama's White House council for community solutions
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