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...At the centre of the show is of course the eponymous frontman Jon Bon Jovi....
...Bon Jovi’s “Christmas Isn’t Christmas” (★★★☆☆) is a solid doo-wop waltz in which a gravelly Jon Bon Jovi laments the absence of a special someone from the season of good cheer....
...Tracks by Rihanna got the same treatment as those by Bon Jovi. For this and other reasons, the market applies a 50 per cent haircut to the trust....
...The title track is an all-riffs-blazing stomper in which the singer goes toe-to-toe with Bon Jovi axeman Richie Sambora’s wailing guitar....
...Celebrities including Post Malone, Kylie Minogue and Jon Bon Jovi have all jumped on the band wagon....
...Mercuriadis promised that “we’re gonna get this fund to number one” while trotting out Bon Jovi band member Richie Sambora to perform Living on a Prayer to a room of investors and analysts....
...Visitors included the tennis legend Venus Williams and the musician Jon Bon Jovi....
...This gave them space to search inside, alternately cutting and burning tissue, with the smell of the blood and seared flesh filling the room almost as prominently as Jon Bon Jovi, whose vaulting chorus to...
...Because whatever Bon Jovi might say, if you’re gonna live while you’re alive then you can’t afford to put off sleep till you are dead....
...Jovi’s Livin’ on a Prayer plays....
...A couple of hundred people huddle around a live music stage as a passable Bon Jovi cover blares out. Read more here...
...The songs — credited to David Bryan, keyboardist of Bon Jovi — crescendo to jazz-hand bombast, met by perfect silence....
...Hipgnosis has on average paid 14.8 times songs’ historic annual income to acquire the rights to hits by artists such as The Pretenders, Chic and Bon Jovi....
...Hipgnosis has on average paid 14.8 times songs’ historic annual income to acquire the rights to hits by The Pretenders and Bon Jovi....
...By 2010, all four nominees for the best musical Tony award were rock musicals and the winner — Memphis — was written by the keyboard player of hair-metal band Bon Jovi....
...His capital market days have featured his high-profile friends and partners such as Nile Rodgers of Chic and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi....
...A couple of hundred people huddle around a live music stage as a passable Bon Jovi cover blares out....
...Hipgnosis has on average paid 14.76 times songs’ historic annual income to acquire some of the rights to hits by artists such as Barry Manilow, Fleetwood Mac and Bon Jovi....
...Please play Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer” at full volume as you read this....
...Jon Bon Jovi appeared in pre-recorded film on a Miami pier at sunrise singing a rootsy version of The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun”....
...Hipgnosis has on average paid 14.76 times songs’ historic annual income to acquire some of the rights to hits by artists such as Barry Manilow, The Pretenders, Chic, Fleetwood Mac and Bon Jovi....
...Livin’ On A Prayer aptly describes the Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which also owns the Bon Jovi tune of that name. The UK-listed investment company has a market capitalisation of £1.16bn....
...Hipgnosis buys music rights for songs penned and performed by the likes of Bon Jovi, Blondie and Neil Young. These have risen in value thanks to the advent of streaming services....
...Songs owned by the London-listed fund include Bon Jovi’s “Livin' On A Prayer”, “Back to Black” by Amy Winehouse, and the Al Green classic “Let’s Stay Together”....
...Mercuriadis may be spending money hand over fist but is a jaded hit by Barry Manilow or Bon Jovi really worth what he is investing in it?...
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