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Live review: Bon Jovi @ Hampden Park
Jun 23 2008 Duncan Bryceland
DESPITE a constant downpour, more than 40,000 fans packed Scotland's national stadium as Bon Jovi lifted their spirits with a rollercoaster performance.
Their flamboyant outfits and blonde manes may have been tamed, but the show proved to be as spectacular as ever, as a series of giant screens, a top light show and a stellar performance captivated the huge crowd.
Opening with a cover of Status Quo's Rockin' All Over The World and closing with Lulu's Shout was perhaps not the best choice for a band with such a strong back catalogue of their own.
That aside, the veterans' set encompassed near to every decisive period of their 26-year career; from their seminal Runaway, to the groove driven Keep The Faith, the rousing It's My Life, to more current material from album Lost Highway.
Jon proved he's still a top showman as he struck iconic poses and playfully said: "You've got the finest weather here in Scotland."
Such is the dedication of fans that two women had waited at the gates from midnight and another group had travelled from Italy.
It wouldn't be a Bon Jovi concert without their trademark big romantic soft-rock ballads and Always swept the audience along with its power and passion.
Lead guitarist Richie Sambora put aside recent drink driving allegations to take the spotlight to sing I'll Be There For You.
He asked the crowd: "How we doing, sunny Glasgow? It might be raining, but it's sunny in my heart."
An acoustic intro to Livin' On A Prayer was greeted by an impromptu Hampden sing-along, then, after an atmosphere-building pause, Jon rather ironically asked the rain-soaked fans: "Do you feel the heat?" as the classic anthem restarted with power.
Bon Jovi proved they still are kings of pop-rock.
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| Citation: | The rain at Hampden Park could not dampen spirits, as beach balls full of optimism were punted around the crowd. Glasgow rock outfit Logan got the emergency poncho-clad audience warmed up and were well received as the support's support. The Feeling played hits such as I Thought it Was Over and Love it When You Call but it was their cover of Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star which actually got the stadium's buy-in (moaning about the rain didn't really help their cause).
Bon Jovi's tour could not have been further from their normal Californian climate. Though images of parched deserts and craggy canyons were to appear behind them throughout the sodden evening, the group entered playing Status Quo's Rockin' All Over The World. Swiftly moving onto tour title track Lost Highway, Jon Bon Jovi announced: "The rain ain't going to slow nothing down here tonight. We got to turn the heat on the body heat." Cue 20,000 swoons.
The show was not reliant on any of the usual stadium tricks, such as elaborate pyrotechnics, and with more of their mature songs, there was an older, Nashville bent to some of the evening. Guitar legend Richie Sambora and the rest of the band are really starting to look their age (would they melt in the rain?) but you have to wonder if Jon sleeps in an oxygen tent - he's aged twice as better than the rest of the the boys.
We were transported back to 1982 for a trawl through their extensive back catalogue, from Blaze, to Keep The Faith, culminating in the deathless Livin' On A Prayer. We even saw Jon make like a possessed conductor during some of the more hardened rock. With an encore of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah (a song Jon Bon Jovi wished he had written) and a crowd-pleasing rendition of Bad Medicine (with Lulu's Shout as a sure-fire segueway) the two-and-a-half-hour set eventually closed and thousands dispersed to find their own Highway home for warm baths and Lemsips. |
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fred
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ouh là qu'est-ce qui se passe ?!  _________________ "La vie c'est ça, un bout de lumière qui finit dans la nuit."[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien][Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] |
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ANA
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Date d'inscription: 24/09/2007
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ouh là qu'est-ce qui se passe ?! |
bein ouais pop?! il se fou de notre guelle ce journaliste?! qu´ils soient les rois du rock ok mais du pop-rock heckkkk. |
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fred
These Days
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ANA
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c'est ce que je voulais dire ANA 
