BON JOVI: past, present & future
In 1983, John Bongiovi was being paid $50 a week to work as a "gofer" at New
York City's legendary Power Station recording studios. He was running
errands, fetching coffee and sweeping floors (the very same ones upon which
he often found himself sleeping,) all the while watching the Who's Who of
the rock 'n' roll world pass through the front doors. When Jon wasn't
working as a gofer, he was working on his own music. At all odd hours of the
night, using the empty studios and any lingering musicians he could recruit,
John recorded his own original songs.
Armed with a demo tape, John shopped his music to lawyers, managers, record
labels and radio stations in New York and LA with little luck. That is until
he was approached by Chip Hobart, a DJ at the (now defunct) Long Island/NYC
radio station WAPP. WAPP was putting together a compilation album of local
unsigned artists and Hobart wanted to include John's song "RUNAWAY" on the
LP. John was reluctant. He wanted to sign with a label and record an album,
not donate one song to a radio station sampler of homegrown talent. But,
with a little convincing, John agreed to let "RUNAWAY" be a part of the
album. After that decision, John's life would never be the same.
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