{"id":28458,"date":"2024-01-24T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bon-jovi-celebrating-40th-anniversary-with-deluxe-edition-of-self-titled-debut\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:01:19","slug":"bon-jovi-celebrating-40th-anniversary-with-deluxe-edition-of-self-titled-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bon-jovi-celebrating-40th-anniversary-with-deluxe-edition-of-self-titled-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Bon Jovi celebrating 40th anniversary with deluxe edition of self-titled debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/M_BonJoviBonJovi_012424.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Mercury Records<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Bon Jovi<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RJiNoXAVz3g&amp;t=1s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">kicking off the celebration<\/a>\u00a0of their 40th anniversary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0band&#8217;s\u00a0self-titled debut album was released 40 years ago this month, and to mark the occasion, the\u00a0New Jersey rockers have\u00a0just released\u00a0<em>Bon Jovi: Deluxe Edition\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bonjovi.komi.io\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">digital outlets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deluxe edition features nine never-before-heard bonus tracks, including different versions of the album\u2019s hit \u201cRunaway\u201d and live tracks from a 1985 concert in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t believe it\u2019s been 40 years since we released Bon Jovi &#8211; the record that changed our lives forever,\u201d they\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C2fEyh-Ofx6\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">share on Instagram<\/a>, announcing the kick off of what they&#8217;re calling\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/bonjovi40\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#BonJovi40<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the digital release, the band is releasing 5,000 limited-edition anniversary copies of<em>\u00a0Bon Jovi<\/em>\u00a0on ruby red vinyl, which will ship on March 22. There\u2019s also a limited-edition anniversary\u00a0<em>Bon Jovi<\/em>\u00a0cassette, which will ship on April 5.<\/p>\n<p>And it sounds like there will be a lot more to the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t wait to share more with you!\u201d they write. \u201cThank you to everyone who\u2019s been a part of our journey so far. Get ready for 2024, the year of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/bonjovi40\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#BonJovi40<\/a>!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Released January 21, 1984,\u00a0<em>Bon Jovi<\/em>\u00a0featured nine tracks, including the hit \u201cRunaway,\u201d which\u00a0<strong>Jon Bon Jovi<\/strong>\u00a0originally recorded for a demo.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0demo version wound up getting airplay on a local New York radio station, which led to Jon getting signed by Mercury Records and the eventual formation of Bon Jovi.<\/p>\n<p>The album wound up peaking at #43 on the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0200 chart and was later certified double Platinum by the RIAA.<\/p>\n<p><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RJiNoXAVz3g\" title=\"Bon Jovi 40th Anniversary (Official Trailer)\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury Records Bon Jovi\u00a0is\u00a0kicking off the celebration\u00a0of their 40th anniversary.\u00a0 The\u00a0band&#8217;s\u00a0self-titled debut album was released 40 years ago this month, and to mark the occasion, the\u00a0New Jersey rockers have\u00a0just released\u00a0Bon Jovi: Deluxe Edition\u00a0to\u00a0digital outlets. The deluxe edition features nine never-before-heard bonus tracks, including different versions of the album\u2019s hit \u201cRunaway\u201d<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bon-jovi-celebrating-40th-anniversary-with-deluxe-edition-of-self-titled-debut\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}