A four-part Hulu docuseries on a rock & roll legend asks the question: What do you do when the gift that makes you successful begins to fail?
) unflinchingly addresses the vocal problems that plagued Bon Jovi’s 2022 tour. If you’ve seen the YouTube videos of him struggling through “You Give Love a Bad Name” or “Wanted Dead or Alive,” you know how brutal it was to hear.
Bon Jovi does too. In one scene, he walks offstage after a concert in Indianapolis and collapses on the rug in his dressing room. “By far the worst show,” he mutters. It’s the frontman’s failing voice — the result of an atrophying vocal cord — and his relentless mission to fix it that drives director Gotham Chopra’s stellar portrait. Yes,is a rock doc charting the group’s evolution from Jersey bar band to Eighties pop-metal fame and beyond, but it’s not hagiography.
Nearly all past and present members sit for interviews, from gruff drummer Tico Torres and gregarious keys man David Bryan to Sambora’s replacement, Canadian shredder Phil X, and bassist Hugh McDonald. Bruce Springsteen, one of Bon Jovi’s chief influences when he led his first band, the Atlantic City Expressway, also appears, and we learn that the two Garden State heroes often take 100-mile drives together, without their phones, to talk about music and mortality.
Bon Jovi, once forever young, is staring down mortality: He’s 62, wears his signature hair proudly gray, and is reckoning with what could be the end of his career. Despite having vocal cord surgery in June 2022 and committing himself to daily singing exercises and treatments — Chopra’s camera follows him through all of it — there’s no guarantee that Bon Jovi will tour again.
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