Jon Bon Jovi spent most of the 1980s establishing his hard rock band Bon Jovi as one of the most popular in the Western world with multi-
platinumalbums like Slippery When Wet and New Jersey. He then put the band on hold to make a solo album, Blaze of Glory (released July
1990), whose songswere inspired by the motion picture Young Guns II. Bon Jovi the band was reactivated in 1992 with Keep the Faith, but the
group's namesakefrontman continued to make time for his own projects during the following two decades, including the 1997 sophomore solo
album DestinationAnywhere.
