Austin is a good distance from Sayreville, New Jersey, however Bon Jovi obtained a hometown hero’s welcome all the identical once they arrived at SXSW on Thursday for the premiere of their upcoming Hulu docuseries, Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story.
The band appeared on the Paramount Theatre alongside Thank You, Goodnight director Gotham Chopra and his father and creator Deepak Chopra, who moderated a brief Q&A with singer Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan and drummer Tico Torres. Earlier than that, although, the viewers watched the primary episode of the four-part docuseries, which is able to debut on April 26 on Hulu and Disney+ internationally.
The primary episode, filmed in 2022, units the stage for Bon Jovi’s impending fortieth anniversary (which passed off in 2023), and the band is seen rehearsing extensively for a 15-date area tour. It isn’t all smiles and heat, fuzzy nostalgia although: As followers now know, Jon Bon Jovi was scuffling with vocal points that in the end required him to bear medialization surgical procedure to regain correct perform of his atrophied vocal wire.
This contemporary-day footage is interspersed with archival footage and storytelling to chronicle the rise of Bon Jovi from a scrappy Jersey Shore bar band to stadium-filling superstars. Episode one naturally focuses on the early days and hits all of the anticipated rock-doc beats, however Thank You, Goodnight options sufficient ancillary gamers from the Bon Jovi universe and past to maintain issues attention-grabbing — and it ends on a cliffhanger of types that can have followers smashing the “play subsequent” button (and had the SXSW crowd roaring with applause).
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Thursday was a momentous day for Bon Jovi for extra causes than the Thank You, Goodnight premiere. The band additionally launched its new single “Legendary” and introduced its upcoming album Without end, out June 7. Jon Bon Jovi touched on each whereas talking to Chopra after the screening.
“The discharge of ‘Legendary’ at present and the forthcoming album is simply all about pleasure,” the frontman mentioned. “And it is that pursuit of excellence in order that if and once we tour once more, that we will go on the market and really embrace it, simply sheer pleasure. And that is all that issues: nothing greater than the sheer pleasure of trying on the guys that I need to be with on that stage, and singing these songs for you.”
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