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Jon Bon Jovi praised for talking woman off bridge

Content warning: This article contains mentions of suicide. Jon Bon Jovi has helped to persuade a woman standing on the ledge of a bridge in Nashville to come back over the railing, likely saving her life. The Metro Nashville Police Department revealed that the encounter happened on Tuesday night on the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge. The rock star was filming a music video for his song The People's House on the bridge, when he spotted the woman on the ledge, according to the New York Post. Surveillance footage shared by the city's police department on X showed the singer approaching the woman, alongside another bystander and not long after they helped pull her over the railing and away from danger. After the woman was safe, she and Bon Jovi hugged. "A shout out to @jonbonjovi & his team for helping a woman on the Seigenthaler Ped Bridge Tue night," the Metro Nashville Police Department shared on X. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> A shout out to <a href="https://twitter.com/jonbonjovi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jonbonjovi</a> & his team for helping a woman on the Seigenthaler Ped Bridge Tue night. Bon Jovi helped persuade her to come off the ledge over the Cumberland River to safety. "It takes all of us to help keep each other safe,"--Chief John Drake <a href="https://t.co/1YejKJ2WgM">https://t.co/1YejKJ2WgM</a> — Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) <a href="https://twitter.com/MNPDNashville/status/1833970989354348832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2024</a></blockquote> "Bon Jovi helped persuade her to come off the ledge over the Cumberland River to safety. 'It takes all of us to help keep each other safe,'--Chief John Drake." The bridge was completely open to the public at the time Bon Jovi was filming his music video. While the singer told The Post that he won't be making any public comments out of respect for the person and their privacy, another source told them that Bon Jovi did what any person who found themselves in that situation would've done. Images: Metropolitan Nashville Police Department

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Bon Jovi shares sad family news

Jon Bon Jovi's mother, Carol Bongiovi has died aged 83, just three days before her birthday. Carol passed away at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, New Jersey, on Tuesday. The star paid a heartbreaking tribute to her, telling People: “Our mother was a force to be reckoned with, her spirit and can-do attitude shaped this family.” “She will be greatly missed.” No cause of death has been given. Carol affectionally known to fans as "mum Jovi" was a former Playboy Bunny and the founder of the Bon Jovi band's official fan club. Jon previously spoke about his mother's influence on his career in a 2020 interview with The Big Issue. "What I got from my parents was the ability to make the dream reality," he explained. "Even if you truly weren't any good at your craft, if you believed you were, you could work on it. As I got older I realised that was a great gift that I got from my folks. "They truly believed in the John Kennedy mantra of going to the moon. 'Yeah, of course you can go to the moon. Just go, Johnny.' And there I went." He also shared a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C9QAG10uRk-/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clip</a> from his 2020 music video for Story of Love on Instagram, which featured his parents and captioned it: "Momma. We carry you with us. Always ❤️❤️" According to People, Holmdel Funeral Home is in charge of Carol’s funeral, which will be private. Carol is survived by her husband John, her rocker son and other two children, Matthew and Anthony Bongiovi, as well as eight grandchildren. Image: Instagram

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Bon Scott’s brother discusses AC/DC frontman’s death for the first time

For the first time since the rockstar’s untimely death in 1980, Bon Scott’s closest friends and family have spoken out about his success and reliance on vices. Bon’s brother Derek said while Bon’s devil-may-care attitude was a key part of his public persona as a rockstar, it would eventually lead to his downfall as his penchant for risk-taking would backfire. Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC, was found dead in a car in London in 1980 after a night of heavy drinking, drug use and partying at just 33 years old. Bruce Howe, a close friend of the rockstar, said he would rely on dangerous vices while on the road, specifically when boredom would set in. “That‘s when he would start taking risks, doing wild things,” Howe said on the ABC’s Australian Story. “On days when he was bored, there was no future, there was only now.” “He didn‘t give a bugger about whether he lived or died the next day. He’d try anything — magic mushrooms, marijuana, alcohol — and he would take risks on his motorbike.” “I said, ‘You are going to f***ing kill yourself. Do something about it!’” Speaking for the first time on the death of his brother, Derek Scott said Bon’s alcoholism had always worried those closest to him. “He did get bored very quickly,” he said. “That was the biggest problem. When he got bored, he drank.” “He never worried about tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day.” When Bon Scott joined AC/DC and rose to international fame, his stardom became another vehicle of self-destruction. “Within the next 12 months, they were expected to be one of the biggest acts on the planet,” Murray Engleheart, author of the book AC/DC Maximum Rock and Roll, said. “The next album was going to be the one that was really going to kick them over the goalposts.” But after barely five years of AC/DC becoming a global act, the Bon Scott era was over. “Bon’s passing as he did, on his own in a car in the freezing cold, after all his hard work and all his heartbreak getting there, was just an incredibly sad, lonely and unglamorous way to go out,” Mr Engleheart said. Mr Howe said he was gutted by the news of his death, but knew deep down that an early death was always a possibility for his friend. “He drank far too much,” Mr Howe said. ”I did wonder if he would push it too far one day. And sadly, he obviously did.” Image credits: Getty Images

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"This is Our House": See inside Bon Jovi’s swanky condo

Rocker Jon Bon Jovi is <a href="https://www.compass.com/listing/155-west-11th-street-unit-14a-manhattan-ny-10011/979017794094838977/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">selling</a> his Manhattan condo for a cool $33.22 million.The Livin’ on a Prayer singer <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10508419/Jon-Bon-Jovi-selling-22million-3-951-square-foot-luxurious-Greenwich-Village-condo.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first bought</a> the four-bedroom apartment - which comes with its own private elevator and garden - in 2017 for $28.6 million.Boasting stunning views of Lower Manhattan and the Hudson River through its floor-to-ceiling windows, the 3,951-square-foot condo also includes a Juliette balcony overlooking the city.The master bedroom comes with an expansive walk-in-wardrobe, as well as a windowed master bathroom featuring white and grey marble on the walls, floor, and surrounding the tub, as well as a glass-enclosed shower and mosaic detailing on the floor (which is also heated).As well as having multiple generous bedrooms, the condo includes a kitchen that opens out into a breakfast room, a huge living room, and its own gallery at the centre of the apartment.The condo is located within the exclusive neighbourhood of Greenwich Village, and its new owners will also be able to access The Greenwich Lanes’ fitness centre, 7-square-metre pool, whirlpool, steam rooms and golf simulator.Whoever gets the keys to the condo will also live with famous neighbours, including Starbucks CEO Howard Scultz and actor Michael C. Hall.Bon Jovi moved to the condo in 2017 after offloading his duplex penthouse, also in Manhattan, for $24.1 million.Images: @jonbonjovi (Instagram), Compass

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Jon Bon Jovi reveals secret behind 31 years of successful marriage with high school sweetheart

Rocker Jon Bon Jovi and his wife Dorothea Bongiovi are madly in love, just as they were when they first began dating back in high school. The couple opened up to <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://people.com/music/jon-bon-jovi-wife-dorothea-40-year-love-story/" target="_blank" title="people.com">People</a> magazine on Wednesday and admitted the secret recipe to cook up a bond like the one they have shared for over 40 years. “Mutual respect,” Bon Jovi told the outlet. “Having grown up together and grown together. And we really like each other. We want to hang out.” The pair, both 58, have four children: Stephanie, 27, Jesse, 25, Jacob, 18, and Romeo, 16. <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFfZ-LJsYAh/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFfZ-LJsYAh/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by BON GIOVI FAMILY🤍✨ (@bongiovi.family)</a> on Sep 23, 2020 at 12:25pm PDT </div> </blockquote> The Livin’ On A Prayer singer also admitted that in spire of the endless fame and fortune, Dorothea has always remained “without a doubt” his rock. “We work hard at it, but we enjoy each other and we never fell for the trappings of what celebrity can do,” he said. “We’ve witnessed that happen over the years to people that were close to us and people that we knew from afar. It’s just what I do, it’s not who I am. I write songs. “I happen to be very good at performing them. That’s it.” <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFxFnj7s58A/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFxFnj7s58A/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Bongiovi kids ( Fan Account ) (@bongiovi_kids)</a> on Sep 30, 2020 at 9:14am PDT </div> </blockquote> The couple have also been outspoken on giving their kids a normal upbringing. Together the pair launched the Soul Foundation in 2006, and together alongside their family and the organisation, they aim to tackle homelessness and hunger in the United States. “It’s a partnership,” Dorothea told the outlet. “When we see injustice or people suffering, you want to help. We’re very blessed, and we have the ability to do that.” “I’m happiest if I like what I do for a living, I’m doing right by my family and I’m making the world just a little bit better,” Bon Jovi said. <img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7838138/bon-jovi.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/363c63675a9c41dbbd7514c7e6cd9df6" /> The couple met at Sayreville War Memorial High School in their New Jersey hometown. In 1989, at the height of Bon Jovi’s success, the couple eloped to Las Vegas. Bon Jovi admitted he is not saint, and found a sanctuary in his marriage. “She’s the glue,” he said. <img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7838136/bon-jovi-2.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/42c1458918954fdeb1ad99d76a87b3e8" /> “I’m the crazy visionary with all kinds of things flying, and the seams are all splitting. She’s the one following me with the glue and the thread and needle, keeping it all together. “Somehow I became the poster boy for a long-married rock star. “But I’ll accept the mantle because I’m so happy.”

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The real tragedy of Bon Scott

Once Scotland Yard issued an announcement on Wednesday, 20 February 1980, the news quickly spread around the world: Bon Scott, the 33-year-old lead singer of Australia’s greatest ever rock band, AC/DC, had been found dead in a parked car in London. There were “no suspicious circumstances". By Friday that week, coroner Sir Montague Levine had ruled his demise a ‘death of misadventure’ caused by acute alcohol poisoning. It was an open and shut case – or was it? For decades, many conspiracy theories around Scott’s mysterious death have emerged; some of them worthy of investigation – a possible drug overdose, others patently absurd – murder. But to be able to solve what I regard as the Da Vinci Code of rock, it required going back much further than 1980 – back to AC/DC’s first tour of the United States in 1977. For it was in America that the road to Scott’s death, his last highway, began. As a biographer of Bon Scott, the challenge for me was answering one simple question: "Just how had a rough-edged and sometimes inarticulate but charming, witty, street-smart young man with a bent for reinvention and a talent for lyric writing end up a chronic alcoholic with two heroin overdoses under his belt by age 30? Why did his life end just as AC/DC was on the cusp of fortune and international superstardom?" There had to be more to it than just one fateful night out on the town that ended in a tragic accident. And there was – much more. In Bon: The Last Highway, I delved deep into Scott’s unknown past, meeting friends and lovers he had during three years of touring America. They all told a similar story: he was troubled, conflicted, sometimes depressed, and sick of playing the role he’d created for himself as a sort of rock ’n’ roll Fagin. The pressures and loneliness of life on the road were getting to him, and he was masking a lot of his inner torment by drinking alcohol, using drugs such as Quaaludes and cocaine, and bedding groupies as AC/DC moved from gig to gig, city to city across America. The real Bon Scott liked reading Doris Lessing and Colette. He listened to The Pretenders and Steely Dan. He wanted stability and commitment in his romantic life, but he wasn’t getting it from the few women he was genuinely interested in. He was too wayward, too unpredictable, too uncertain about his own identity for them to consider a serious relationship. He was even unsure whether he wanted to stay in the band. And so, by the time Scott got to London in early 1980, he was not in a good way. Though AC/DC had finally cracked the US market with Highway to Hell and money was finally starting to appear in his bank account, physically he looked haggard and tired, and wasn’t his customary fit self. Emotionally, he was at a weak point and susceptible to temptation. London, flooded with brown heroin from Iran, was a not a good place to be. <a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/bon-the-last-highway-9780857988928">Bon: The Last Highway</a> by Jesse Fink, published by Penguin Random House, is available now for RRP $34.99. What are your memories from when the news hit of Bon Scott’s death? Written by Jessie Fink. Republished with permission of <a href="https://www.wyza.com.au/articles/entertainment/the-real-tragedy-of-bon-scott.aspx">Wyza.com.au.</a>

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Baby girl rocks out with dad to Bon Jovi

This eight-month-old baby girl certainly loves her classic rock songs – just watch what happens when her dad starts playing a rendition of Bon Jovi’s Wanted: Dead or Alive! Related links: <a href="/lifestyle/family-pets/2015/12/life-lessons-from-grandparents/">Top 10 life lessons kids learn from grandparents</a> <a href="/lifestyle/family-pets/2014/11/the-grandma-diaries-memories-for-my-grandchild/">The Grandma diaries: memories for my grandchild</a> <a href="/lifestyle/family-pets/2014/09/why-family-traditions-are-so-important/">Why family traditions are SO important</a>

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Jon Bon Jovi surprises terminally ill fan

Carol Cesario, who has stage-4 lung cancer, was dining at Jon Bon Jovi’s restaurant in New Jersey when you got the surprise of her life. The rock star showed up at her table while she was dining with friends and family at his JBJ Soul Kitchen eatery in Toms River, and proceeded to share a meal with her. A video of the special meeting shows the mother of four shouting "Oh my God!" as she turns around to see the famous front man just inches away from her. Cesario, who has endured repeated stays in hospital over the last five months, struggles to say a thing as her idol sits down beside her. He then reaches out to clasp her hand and they begin to talk. He reportedly spent more than an hour with the family and also gave her a signed book and guitar. Rosie’s daughter, Skripkunis posted this photograph of her mom on Facebook on June 1. <img width="491" height="778" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/23374/jon-insert_491x778.jpg" alt="Jon Insert"/> The image soon went viral and came to the attention of members of Bon Jovi's team, who contacted Skripkunis to begin planning the meet-up. However, Skripkunis decided to keep it a secret from her mom. "I told her I wrote to his restaurant, that they said they couldn't pass fan mail on, but they had invited us for a free meal. It was a free meal, but it was a free meal with Bon Jovi there." "Hanging out with Jon was amazing. He was so down-to-earth and sweet to our whole family, and especially to our mom." Watch the sweet moment in the video above. What rock star would you most like to meet? Let us know in the comments below. Related links: <a href="/lifestyle/retirement-life/2016/05/105-year-old-volunteer-teacher/">105-year-old proves volunteering has no age limit</a> <a href="/lifestyle/retirement-life/2016/05/76-year-old-volunteer-shares-wisdom-with-schoolkids/">76-year-old volunteer shares wisdom with schoolkids</a> <a href="/lifestyle/retirement-life/2016/04/i-found-retirement-overrated/">Retirement is overrated. Here’s what I did instead.</a>

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Jon English farewelled at public memorial

Last month <a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/news/news/2016/03/music-legend-jon-english-passes-away/" target="_blank">we reported the sad news</a> of music legend Jon English’s shock death at 66 from surgery complications. At Sydney’s Capitol Theatre last night, 2,000 fans, friends and family of Jon English gathered to farewell the Aussie titan of music, film and theatre. Performers included Jesus Christ Superstar co-stars John Paul Young and Trevor White and Simon Gallaher, who joined English in The Pirates of Penzance. Marcia Hines, Marina Prior, Peter Cousens and John Waters also paid their respects on stage. Peter Rix, English’s manager for nearly 20 years, said, “Wherever Jonno went, he was always the star. He was a singer, a composer, an actor, a musician, a television star, he was a titan of the stage and of film. But remember, always a husband and a father, and whether I liked it or not, always captain of the ship.” Jessamine English, Jon’s daughter, celebrated her father as a “very private person, with a very public job,” adding that, “Jon English was great at so many, many things but to us his greatest role will always be 'father'." The service, which was opened by English’s former band, The Foster Brothers, was fittingly closed with a video of English himself playing one of his most famous songs, “Hollywood Seven”. Image: David Spicer/ABC News Related links: <a href="/news/news/2016/03/last-official-interview-with-jon-english/">Watch the last interview Jon English gave</a> <a href="/entertainment/music/2016/03/behind-scenes-pic-of-favourite-musicians/">8 behind-the-scenes photos of our favourite musicians</a> <a href="/entertainment/music/2016/02/chart-topping-song-list/">Songs that have defined the ages</a>

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Watch the last interview Jon English gave

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Music legend Jon English passes away aged 66

Rock music legend John English has passed away, aged 66. The 66-year-old musician's passing is reportedly the result of complications in surgery. Mr English is said to have been surround by his wife Carmen and his four children Jessamin, Josephine, Jonnie and Julian at the time of his passing. Mr English was an rock music icon, shooting to fame in the 70s for his role of Judas in the Australian version of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. Related links: <a href="/news/news/2016/03/couple-give-60-million-lottery-away/">Couple gives $60 million lottery win away</a> <a href="/news/news/2016/03/find-letter-t-image-puzzle/">Can you find the letter “T” in this image?</a> <a href="/news/news/2016/03/stunning-images-antarctica-remote-beauty/">Stunning images of Antarctica’s remote beauty</a>

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Jon Bon Jovi praised for talking woman off bridge

Bon Jovi shares sad family news

Bon Scott’s brother discusses AC/DC frontman’s death for the first time

"This is Our House": See inside Bon Jovi’s swanky condo

Jon Bon Jovi reveals secret behind 31 years of successful marriage with high school sweetheart

The real tragedy of Bon Scott

Baby girl rocks out with dad to Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi surprises terminally ill fan

Jon English farewelled at public memorial

Watch the last interview Jon English gave

Music legend Jon English passes away aged 66