Custom image from Jefferson Chacon of Jon Bon Jovi smiling for Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story
The Big Picture Sustaining a career for 40 years is a huge accomplishment for anyone, but for a rock ‘n’ roll band, it’s legendary. From award-winning director Gotham Chopra , the four-part Hulu documentary Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story covers four decades and includes personal videos, unreleased early demos and never before seen photos to accompany the band members sharing their own stories about the musical journey, from the ups and downs to the good and bad.
JON BON JOVI: Yeah, it does. How could you have ever thought about a 40-year span. Back in the day, when we started, if I can think retro to that, rock bands weren’t 40 years old. In 1980, there weren’t rock bands in the forties, so there weren’t guys that had 40- or 50-year rock and roll careers. I could have never, in my wildest dreams, considered a 40-year career at the top.
TORRES: Alec was a big catalyst that put this band together, with Richie and myself. When I went to meet Jon and we did that little jam session down the street, five minutes from where I lived, I had just gotten off the road with Frankie and the Knockouts and I left there going, “That kid’s very talented.” He looked great, so I took a chance and skipped town. Starting from the beginning, it was taking a gamble, but I saw it right away. I felt it.
BON JOVI: I had seen Man in the Arena, which is the Tom Brady docuseries, and I was really taken by it because I felt that his perspective with Tommy was very different. And then, if you really looked at it and scrutinized the piece visually, it was different. I always considered the band to be very similar to a team, where somebody had to be a quarterback, somebody had to be a receiver, and somebody had to be a lineman. That’s how teams work, so I knew he could relate to that.
Bon Jovi Drummer Tico Torres Felt Success Every Time the Audience Clapped When you guys were younger and dreaming of what it might be like or could be like to have a career as a musician, what was the dream then? What seemed like the big time, and how different was that first dream from what you ultimately achieved?
BON JOVI: When you’re young and you’ve never traveled the world, every day is a new adventure. You’re staying in hotels that are far nicer than any couch that you’ve been sleeping on in a rented apartment, so everything was a gift. And then, you’re able to perform. I don’t think any of those early years were a curse. I think they were all a great adventure.
TORRES: Music, to me, is spiritual. It’s a universal language. You don’t have to speak a language to play with another musician from another country. You communicate with your instrument, whether it’s singing or playing. Imagine seeing a movie without music. You’d go, “Does that affect me as much?” That’s your answer. Jon, one of the coolest things about this documentary is that you uncovered a completed unreleased song.
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