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This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first album by the band Bon Jovi.

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

After decades of singing anthemic songs like Living on a Prayer, You Give Love a Bad Name and Wanted Dead or Alive,

in sold out stadiums around the world, my guest John Bon Jovi 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 Jovey is the subject of a

new documentary called Thank You Good Night, the Bon Jovi story.

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 40th anniversary, a new Bon Jovi album called Forever will be released in June.

One song, Legendary, has already been released. We'll hear that a little later.

This year, in conjunction with the Grammys,

Bon Jovey was named the Music Cares Person of the Year. The tribute concert

included a performance by his New Jersey friend Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi has known since he was a teenager.

Let's start with the best-known track from his first album called Bon Jovi, which was released 40 years ago.

The song is Runaway.

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