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Bon Jovi is an

American rock band formed in

1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey. It

consists of singer Jon Bon Jovi,

keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, guitarist Phil X, and bassist Hugh McDonald. Original bassist Alec John Such quit the band

in 1994, and longtime guitarist and co-songwriter Richie Sambora left in 2013. In 1984 and 1985, Bon Jovi

released their first two albums and their debut single "Runaway" managed to

crack the Top 40. In 1986, the band achieved widespread success and global

recognition with their third album, Slippery When Wet, which sold over 20 million copies and

included three Top 10 singles, two of which reached No. 1 ("You Give Love a Bad Name"

and "Livin' on a Prayer") Their fourth album, New Jersey (1988),

was also very successful, selling over 10 million copies and featuring five Top

10 singles (a record for a glam metal, heavy metal and hard rock album), two of

which reached No. 1 ("Bad Medicine" and

"I'll Be

There for You"). After the band toured and recorded extensively

during the late 1980s, culminating in the 1988–1990 New Jersey Tour, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora released

successful solo albums in 1990 and 1991, respectively. In 1992, the band

returned with the double-platinum Keep the Faith. This was followed by their biggest-selling

and longest-charting single "Always" (1994) and

the album These Days (1995),

which proved to be a bigger success in Europe than in the United States,

producing four Top Ten singles in the United Kingdom. Following a second

hiatus, their 2000 album Crush, particularly

the lead single, "It's My Life",

successfully introduced the band to a younger audience. The band followed up

with Bounce in 2002.

The platinum albums Have a Nice Day (2005)

and Lost Highway (2007)

saw the band incorporate elements of country music into some of the songs,

including the 2006 single "Who Says You Can't Go Home",

which won the band a Grammy Award and

became the first single by a rock band to reach No. 1 on the country

charts. The Circle (2009)

marked a return to the band's rock sound. The band also enjoyed great success

touring, with both the 2005–2006 Have a Nice Day Tour and

2007–2008 Lost Highway Tour ranking

among the Top 20 highest-grossing

concert tours of the 2000s and the 2013 Because We Can Tour ranking

among the highest-grossing of the 2010s. The band continues to tour and record,

with their most recent album This House Is Not for Sale and

its associated tour encompassing

2016–2019. Bon Jovi has released 15 studio albums, five compilations and three live albums. They have sold more than 100 million records

worldwide, making them one of the best-selling American rock

bands, and performed more than 2,700 concerts in over 50

countries for more than 34 million fans. Bon Jovi was inducted into

the UK Music Hall of Fame in

2006, and into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in

2018. The band received the Award of Merit at the American Music Awards in

2004  and Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora were inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in

2009.