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7800° Fahrenheit is the second studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi. It was released on March 27, 1985, through Mercury Records . The album's title is a reference to the supposed melting point of rock, which is equivalent to 4315.5 °C.
7800° Fahrenheit: Lance Quinn "The Last Night" Lost Highway "The More Things Change" Greatest Hits "The One That Got Away" 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong "The People's House" Forever: John Shanks, Jon Bon Jovi "The Price of Love" 7800° Fahrenheit: Lance Quinn "The Radio Saved My Life Tonight" 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong
It is taken from their second album, 7800° Fahrenheit (1985). It was the album's final single, debuting on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart Christmas week 1985 and hitting its peak of #24 a month later. The ballad was the glam metal album's most successful entry at rock radio, although it did not make the pop chart.
The album features many of Bon Jovi's best-known songs, including "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Livin' on a Prayer", and "Wanted Dead or Alive". Slippery When Wet was an instant commercial success, spending eight weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and was named by Billboard as the top-selling album of 1987. [ 7 ]
The song also featured on the band's best-of album Cross Road, and Disc Two of their Greatest Hits album. A live version of the song, recorded in Tokyo during summer 1985, can be found on the album One Wild Night Live 1985-2001. In an interview, Bon Jovi said that he wrote the song while watching MTV's Top 20 Video Countdown.
The track was recorded in 1982 at the Power Station recording studio, and released to radio in 1983. [7] Jon Bon Jovi chose studio musicians who were recording with other artists using the studio at the time—these musicians became known as "The All Star Revue", which included: bassist Hugh McDonald (who would join Bon Jovi in 1994 as an unofficial member); guitarist Tim Pierce (who was ...
AllMusic has retrospectively rated Bon Jovi three-and-a-half out of five stars. Leslie Mathew, who reviewed the album, said: "The songs may be simple and the writing prone to all clichés of the form, but the album boasts a pretty consistent hard rock attack, passionate playing, and a keen sense of melody", and called the album "an often-overlooked minor gem from the early days of hair metal".
"I'll Be There for You" is a song by American rock band Bon Jovi, released as the third single from their 1988 album, New Jersey. The power ballad was written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora . The single reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number five on the Album Rock Tracks chart.