Jon Bon Jovi Revisits Tommy and Gina from 'Livin' on a Prayer' (A Top Story)
. Bruce Springsteen will probably always be New Jersey's favorite son. But, by the '80s, he'd expanded his view to the entire country on albums like Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A. During that decade, there was nothing more "Jersey" than Bon Jovi, and none of Jon Bon Jovi's lyrics spoke to Jerseyites more than "Livin' on a Prayer," telling the tale of Tommy and Gina. But really, "Livin' on a Prayer" resonated far beyond the Garden State: 1986's Slippery When Wet, the album which featured "Livin'," (as well as "You Give Love a Bad Name" and "Never Say Goodbye") has gone 12x Platinum. As Jon says in this interview, "A lot of people related to this song as if they were these two people." He says that he later returned to Tommy and Gina (without actually mentioning them by name) on "Born to Be My Baby" on the followup album, 1988's New Jersey; after that, they were name-dropped in the monster hit "It's My Life" from 2000's Crush. Watch it - here. Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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