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Bon Jovi is the self-titled debut album by American rock band Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
, and was released in January 1984.






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Bon Jovi is the self-titled debut album by American rock band Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
, and was released in January 1984. It is also significant for being the only Bon Jovi album on which a song ("She Don't Know Me") appears that was not written or co-written by members of the band.

Sales were in excess of two million copies. The single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 "Runaway
Runaway (Bon Jovi song)

"Runaway" is a Bon Jovi song, written in 1980 and originally recorded in 1981 for the so called "Power Station Demos". The recordings were primarily done by an ensemble simply known as Jon Bongiovi & the Rest....
" was the band's first Top 40 hit, reaching #39 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
 in 1984.

The album was remastered and re-released in 1998.

Track listing


Special Edition Bonus CD

Nippon Phonogram Japan PHCR-90011/2

  1. Runaway (Live Le Zeneith 1988/11/20)
  2. Roulette (Live BBC Friday Rock Show)
  3. Shot Through The Heart (Live Japan Tour 1985)
  4. Burning For Love (Live Japan Tour 1985)
  5. Get Ready (Live Japan Tour 1985)
  6. Breakout (Live Super Rock '84)
  7. Runaway (Live Super Rock '84)

Samples


Personnel


Bon Jovi

  • Jon Bon Jovi
    Jon Bon Jovi

    John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. , better known as Jon Bon Jovi, is an United States musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and founder of Bon Jovi....
     – lead vocals
  • Richie Sambora
    Richie Sambora

    Richard "Richie" Steven Sambora , is an American Rock music guitarist, producer, musician, singer and songwriter who is the lead guitarist of the rock band Bon Jovi....
     – guitar
    Guitar

    The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
    , background vocals
    Backing vocalist

    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. In some cases, a backing singer may sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry....
  • Alec John Such
    Alec John Such

    Alec John Such is the former bassist for the band Bon Jovi. He left the band in 1994 and has not been officially replaced. As well as playing bass guitar, Such sang backing vocals and occasionally took the lead for part of 'Blood on Blood' at live shows....
     – bass
    Bass guitar

    The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
    , background vocals
  • Tico Torres
    Tico Torres

    Hector Samuel Juan "Tico" Torres is an United States drummer and percussionist of Bon Jovi. He also has taken lead vocals on a song on the box set 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong, as well as backing vocals on a couple of the early Bon Jovi tracks, notably "Born to Be My Baby" and "Love for Sale"....
     – drums
    Drum kit

    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
    , percussion
    Percussion instrument

    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
  • David Bryan
    David Bryan

    David Bryan is the keyboard player of the band Bon Jovi. Bryan also sings backing vocals and often at live shows sings part of or the whole of the song 'In These Arms', one of a handful of Bon Jovi songs credited to him....
     – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument

    A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
    , background vocals


Additional personnel

  • Roy Bittan
    Roy Bittan

    Roy Bittan is an United States keyboardist, best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, which he joined on August 23, 1974. Bittan, nicknamed "The Professor", plays the piano, organ , accordion and synthesizers....
     – keyboards
  • Chuck Burgi
    Chuck Burgi

    Chuck Burgi is an American drummer who was born in Montclair, New Jersey on August 15 1952. He is the brother of actor Richard Burgi.Burgi has played and toured with Al Di Meola, Hall and Oates, Brand X, Rainbow , Blue ?yster Cult, Meat Loaf, Fandango and Enrique Iglesias and has recorded with numerous other artists, including Bon Jovi an...
  • David Grahmme
  • Doug Katsaros
  • Frankie La Rocka – drums
  • Hugh McDonald
    Hugh McDonald (musician)

    Hugh McDonald is a session musician and bassist. He has played with many artists both concert and in the studio, and has recorded with Willie Nelson, Richie Sambora, Steve Goodman, Ringo Starr, Bon Jovi, Lita Ford, Michael Bolton, Cher, Alice Cooper, Jon Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin, and others....
     – bass
  • Aldo Nova
    Aldo Nova

    Aldo Nova is a Canada guitarist, keyboardist, singer and record producer, Nova gained fame with his self-titled debut album Aldo Nova in 1981, and its accompanying single "Fantasy ", which climbed to #23 on the Billboard Hot 100....
  • Tim Pierce – guitar
  • Mick Seeley - background vocals


Engineers

  • Larry Alexander
  • Jeff Hendrickson
  • John Bengelshmy