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I hope you've been enjoying this July 4th. For the holiday we're featuring my interview

with John Bon Jovi. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the band Bon Jovi's first album.

Since then, the band has sold more than 130 million albums.

After decades of singing and themic songs like, Living on a Prayer, You Give Love a Bad

Name and Wanted Dead or alive. In sold out stadiums around the world,

John Panchovel started having vocal problems that got worse over time.

He tried every kind of therapy and when none of them was effective enough to make a significant

difference, he did what he wanted to avoid. He had surgery. Although it didn't restore his voice to what it used to be, the surgery made it possible for him to sing again.

Now John Bon Jovi is the subject of a documentary series called Thank You Good Night,

that's streaming on Hulu.

It alternates between a retrospective of his life and career,

and his reckoning with his vocal problems over the past few years.

In celebration of the anniversary of the band's first album, a new Bon Jovi album called Forever was released last month.

This year, in conjunction with the Grammys, Bon Jovi was named the Music Cares Person of the Year.

The tribute concert included a performance by his New Jersey friend Bruce Springsteen,

who Bon Jovi has known since he was a teenager.

When I spoke with John Bon Jovi in April, we started with the best known

track from the band's first album called Bon Jovey, the song is Runaway. way. It's just easy really rise.

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