“'This House Is Not for Sale' is about integrity it's about a rebirth, also.” Bon Jovi has seen and approves of a viral video of Ukrainians listening to the bands music as they prepare to defend their country amid the Russian invasion. The group's newly released single, 'This House Is Not for Sale,” is also helping him move on. He's a great kid and we put him in a couple of them.” Levi Dylan is the handsome young man in the video. “You know who's in it, though, is Bob Dylan's grandson, Jake Dylan's son. In Bon Jovi's “Labor of Love” music video, Jon cast a surprise young star instead of appearing in it himself. He said, “Having seen Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' I said, 'I'd like to make a video for every song,' and we've never done that before… Tidal said, 'We'll make a video for every song on the record if you want to do that,' and I said, 'That would be great,' and we could really tell the stories behind the lyric, so there's no performance video, these are like little mini-movies, and so I really applaud Tidal for taking the shot.”
The rock star admitted he took a page out of Beyoncé's book, drawing inspiration from her latest album. Of course, everyone knows that once Richie didn't show up for work anymore we had to go on - that was another issue - so there's been a number of things that weren't expected, and so I had to process that.”Īs for how it he got through it all, Jon revealed, “I had a lot of friends and you know what was great, is I can say I had a lot of help, I had a lot of people helping me to get through it - friends when I needed friends, shoulder when I needed a shoulder, and I did, I needed that shoulder, so the writing was the end result of that breakdown, the turmoil, the coming to the crossroads and figuring out what the hell happened to me and 'where am I going with this?' because we don't make music frivolously… I had to have something to say and I needed the tools to say it, which was the band and the support.” We had a big falling out and that, too, was one of the things that was rectified. “There was a number of things - I mean, as we sit here in the hallowed halls of my record company.
The version sung by MacColl and Shane MacGowan spent 109 weeks on the official Irish singles chart, appearing in 17 separate years.One of the things he had to process was guitarist Richie Sambora leaving the band. Listeners also point out that it is odd for Bon Jovi to sing both parts of the duet himself. Another comments: “2020 just gets worse and worse, oh holy god.” If it ain’t broken don’t fix it,” one listener writes.
The YouTube video of the new recording has more than three times as many thumbs-downs as thumbs-ups, plus more than 1,000 mostly negative comments. Steve Lillywhite, who produced the original, and was married to the late MacColl when the song was first released, in 1987, tweeted: “The worst ever version of this song. Kid’s crying now, saying ‘Christmas is ruined’.” The song peaked at No.7 on Billboard Hot 100 regained popularity amongst younger audiences after it became the theme song to Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch. The Pogues have responded to the song by retweeting the dismayed reaction of the Irish musician and DJ Rob Smith: “It’s the worst thing to ever happen music. Wanted Dead or Alive was released as the third single off Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet album in 1987. embarrassing and pointless - Steve Lillywhite CBE 8, 2020