April 30, 2024 4:57 pm
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The celebration of the 40th anniversary of Bon Jovi One of the highlights was the premiere of the documentary series ‘Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story’which can be seen through the platform Disney+. As expected, some comments have caught the attention of fans and viewers in general, such as the moment in which Richie Sambora has compared being in Bon Jovi to the mafia, stating that “the only thing you can do is disappear”and that’s what he did.
Reviewing one of the most complicated moments of the band’s career, in which the legendary guitarist left the group shortly before one of the concerts of the “Because We Can Tour” of 2013, media such as Entertainment Weekley They have highlighted Sambora’s intervention in the documentary explaining this decision while apologizing for it to the fans: “I don’t regret leaving the group, but I do regret how I did it. I would like to apologize right now to the fans, especially, and also to the boys, because my feet and my spirit wouldn’t let me cross that door. I guess that, if you’re in the mafia, the only thing you can do is disappear. And I did that.
These words about what happened more than a decade ago, with the guitarist abandoning the tour that was the guitarist’s entry into the band. Phil Xwho held this position in what Jon Bon Jovi assures in the documentary that it was the most profitable tour in the world that year, adds to the explanation that Sambora gave to People in 2020, focused on taking care of her health and spending more time with her daughter: “It wasn’t a very popular decision, obviously, but I really had almost no choice. I had to do a lot of conscious work around my personal life. We’ve been through a lot together. It was a time of psychological maintenance for the family. I’m not “I was an angel, but I realized that Ava needed me at that moment. Family had to come first, and that’s what happened.”
In this same medium, Richie’s representatives commented that he was not very satisfied with how that episode was portrayed in the documentary: “He didn’t like the way he was being portrayed. He didn’t agree with how they framed his departure from the band. For him, the currency of happiness is more important than money.”
Back to the present, after a few months of speculation around the possibility of a return from the guitarist to the band, Bon Jovi has announced the release of a new album, ‘Forever’and Sambora has continued his solo path, starting to publish his new singles with “I Pray”.
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