Bon Jovi: Twenty Years Ago.... this week Shot down in a Blaze of Glory...

Do you believe it??? Twenty years ago in the US this was the #1 song:


I wonder if Jon still has those pants, he also wore those pants (or a close facsimile thereof) in the I'll Be There For You Video. He wore those pants a lot and that loose shirt with the blue and white that he wore in the I'll Be There For You video as well.

The blue shirt in question can also be seen in this photo from 1988.

Here is a black & white of the blue shirt and those same brown pants together.

But I have digressed:  the true motivation behind this post is to talk about Blaze of Glory.
Blaze of Glory was nominated/won the following awards:

• 1990 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song: Won
• 1990 Academy Award for Best Original Song: Nominated (Sooner or Later from Dick Tracy as sung by Madonna won)
• 1991 American Music Award: Favorite Pop/Rock Single, Won

And a quote from Jack Bauer aka Keifer Sutherland:
"When Jon (Bon Jovi) joined the team for Young Guns 2, we were all eating hamburgers in a diner and Jon was scribbling on this napkin for, say, six minutes. He declared he'd written 'Blaze of Glory', which of course then went through the roof in the States. He later gave Emilio Estevez the napkin. We were munching burgers while he wrote a No. 1 song... Made us feel stupid."

He wrote it in 6 minutes.  Geez!  I wonder how long it took him to write Who Says You can't Go Home?  30 seconds???

Jon - "Richie, I have this lyric in my head...  'It's Alright!'  We need to write a song about this and make it kind of country sounding...."




The video from the Oscars, one of the best performances of the song ever.  Thankfully Jon changed out of his GOD AWFUL crushed velvet purple suit.

I want someone to go to some HRH Q&A session and just ask him what motivated him to wear a suit that made him look like Grape Ape with hair??

So listen to Blaze of Glory right now!!