This week, Bon Jovi announced details of their new album ‘Forever’ and shared the record’s lead single ‘Legendary’. The album comes out on June 7 via EMI.
"I've had it become public knowledge now, but I've had major reconstructive surgery in my vocal cords, and I never had anything like this ever,"
"So it's been a difficult road, but I found a doctor in Philadelphia who did something called a medialization [a procedure in which the paralyzed vocal fold (vocal cord) is pushed to the middle so that the functioning vocal fold can close properly to regain normal vocal function and swallowing ability] because one of my cords was literally atrophied.
Sometimes people get nodules; that's a pretty common place. Sometimes deviated septums and things that they've done take its toll on the cords. The only thing that's ever been up my nose has been my finger.
And so it was very difficult this last decade to have to contend with something that was out of my control, which was … the strong [vocal cord] was literally taking what was left of the weak one.
So they put a plastic implant in it for the last almost two years now. I've been in this rehab, getting it back together, but I'm getting very close. Friday night [at the MusiCares 'Person Of The Year' gala] was my first live performance in two years. The new record's done. So now I just wanna get back to two and a half hours a night, four nights a week, before I'm gonna go out there on the road again. But I'm confident in my doctor."
The four-part docuseries, helmed by Gotham Chopra’s Religion Of Sports, is due to premiere on Hulu in the United States on April 26, and will stream on Disney+ throughout the rest of the world, and in Latin America on Star+ later this year, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story will also mark the first time that a docuseries on the band will feature every member of Bon Jovi’s illustrious career, including former and current members, and will include four decades worth of personal footage from members of the band and never-before-seen photos and never-before-told stories.
“As thrilling as the story of a once-in-a-lifetime talent is, it is even more rare that a legend like Jon Bon Jovi lets the world into his most vulnerable moments while he’s still living them. Forty years of personal videos, unreleased early demos, original lyrics and never-before-seen photos that chronicle the journey from Jersey Shore clubs to the biggest stages on the planet. The series relives the triumphs and setbacks, greatest hits, biggest disappointments and most public moments of friction,” reads the documentary’s description, per Hulu.
Bon Jovi has donated a signed acoustic guitar which has a starting bid of $1,000. Zac Hanson, whose one-third of the pop group Hanson alongside his brothers, Isaac and Taylor, is auctioning off a fully-produced, custom-made song to the highest bidder. The bidding starts at $7,000.
