Jon Bon Jovi Rocks The House as the 2024 Music Cares Person of the Year
PHOTO: Bruce and Jon Bon
They came out in full force to honor Jon Bon Jovi at the Los Angeles Convention Center on February 2 as the 2024 Music Cares Person of the Year: Paul McCartney, Desmond Child, Rita Wilson, Nile Rodgers, Nancy Pelosi, Larkin Poe, Wolfgang Van Halen, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and others. Video tributes poured in from Matthew McConaughey, John Mayer, Pink, Ed Sheeran and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.
Jon Bon has sold 150 million albums in 40 years, including 19 Top 40 hits. He opened the festivities with a rockin’ new song, “Legendary,” from his hotly-anticipated new album. He then introduced Bruce who learned on the airplane to the event that his mom had died. Jon called Bruce, “my mentor, my hero, my brother, my friend.” The two performed Jon’s 2006 “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” and Bruce’s 1978 “The Promised Land.”
Tough act to follow but Melissa Etheridge proved worthy to the task, spitting out Jon’s #1 “Blaze Of Glory” in righteous fashion. Shania Twain did a dramatic version of “Bed Of Roses.” Sammy Hagar tore down the house on “You Give Love A Bad Name.” Jason Isbell did justice to “Wanted Dead Or Alive.” The Goo Goo Dolls did his 2016 “This House Is Not For Sale.” Jellyroll growled out “Bad Medicine.”
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Jon made a speech, and pointing to McCartney, who seemed to be having a fine time, said, “I think it’s fair to say that the reason most, if not all, of us are in the room tonight, is because of you.” He also said, “everything that I’ve accomplished with or without the band or in my philanthropic life has had the support of my family, my friends, bandmates, collaborators and an army of the willing, who’ve always been ready to take my dreams and make them a reality.”