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There was 10 Asbury Dukes and seven E Street guys there was only three bars to go to. There wasn't a day gone by that you didn't stumble into one of them. You know, they were sitting literally on that stupid-ass boardwalk in Ashbridge Park. 'These guys who were 25 minutes away and doing it, literally doing it. 'Naiveté of youth.'Īs a teenager he sang and played in local bands and revelled in his physical proximity to Bruce Springsteen and singer-songwriter Southside Johnny. 'Never for a minute did I doubt that it wasn't going to.'

You never thought it wouldn't happen to you?

His childhood was all very blue-collar and secure, and Bongiovi grew up safe in the conviction that he would inevitably be a rock god. He was born John Francis Bongiovi in1962 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey his father was a Marine turned hairdresser, his mother a Marine turned florist. Jon Bon Jovi has been a rock god for more than half his life. 'But no, no! Let's start over! I don't want to do it like this! Go back to the start, go back to where you say: How are you doing? And I'll say: I'm tired! That's what I'll say.' Then he stops short, meets my eyes, flashes the teeth. Is he enjoying the South American gigs, I ask (I'm not that bothered, honestly I'm just making polite conversation in the name of easing us both into the bigger questions) and he rambles on a bit, catches himself not making sense, tells me (impatiently) that he's: 'Trying to answer me in a way that understand…', has another bash, loses his track again, and suggests that I'm just: 'Not going to appreciate what saying!' His sentences start and trail off into nonsense, and he blames this on me. He's only just flown into São Paulo he doesn't make much sense for the first few minutes of our interview. It's scheduled to carry on long into next year, via Japan and Australia and back to North America with a few more dates in Europe, possibly. The Circle tour (named after the band's 2009 album) began in May of last year and has rolled on ever since, through North America and into Europe (incorporating a sell-out 12 nights in June 2010 at the O 2 Arena in London), back to North America again before this South American section (the band's first visit in 15 years).

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Go!'), turns around and unleashes the full power of his teeth upon me that I recognise him as Jon Bon Jovi at all.īon Jovi are two weeks into the South American leg of a lengthy world tour. It's not until the nondescript man in the chair tells the stern security guards that they should leave ('I'll be more comfortable without you. But once inside, I can see nothing but a nondescript man in a chair. I'd expected to be confronted by oodles of barely suppressed tension and leather-clad, pouty-mouthed, large-haired sexiness the visual shorthand of rock gods in general, and Jon Bon Jovi in particular. I have been ushered into the long, anonymous, overly air-conditioned room, past swathes of security guards dressed in seven shades of stern it's all quite portentous. It's early October, the night before Bon Jovi – the band Jon named, fronts and owns in any meaningful sense – will perform a sell-out stadium gig for 60,000 Brazilian fans. I meet him in the conference room of an expensive chain hotel located in the midst of São Paulo's endless urban sprawl. This is lucky, because from where I'm standing, the rest of him looks a bit like a crumpled middle-aged man in a lumberjack shirt. He'll unleash them on you with no warning smiling suddenly and broadly (maybe with irony, maybe flirtatiously, maybe just because he's tickled by something), and you'll find yourself mesmerised by the beauty of the man's gnashers. Jon Bon Jovi deploys them (quite knowingly, I am sure) to amazing effect. They are semi-threatening when bared, but blindingly, staggeringly glamorous otherwise. They are white and they are straight and there are lots and lots and lots of them. Jon Bon Jovi – long-serving rock god, philanthropist, ageing yet viable pin-up – has truly stupendous teeth.

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