Four years after the band’s last show, Bon Jovi finally returned to the stage on July 7 at Madison Square Garden in New York, kicking off their new tour. Jon Bon Jovi recently said that his voice had fully recovered after spending the past few years taking care of it.
The band has scheduled tour dates in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland throughout July, August and September. In addition to New York, they will also perform in Edinburgh, Dublin and London.
See videos and setlist of Bon Jovi’s first show in four years
- With a Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles cover)
- Beautiful Drug
- We Weren’t Born to Follow
- Lost Highway
- Who Says You Can’t Go Home
- You Give Love a Bad Name
- Born to Be My Baby
- Legendary
- Whole Lot of Leavin’
- In These Arms
- Have a Nice Day
- It’s My Life
- Livin’ on a Prayer
- Lay Your Hands on Me (Everett Bradley drum intro/David
- Bryan organ intro)
- Blood on Blood
- Living Proof
- This House Is Not for Sale
- Keep the Faith
- I’ll Be There for You (1st verse and chorus piano version)
- Wanted Dead or Alive
- Bad Medicine
“I’m fully recovered. It was longer than I’d ever expected, but it had to be right. We never lost faith. (My bandmates) never doubted (me) and never looked for work or decided to retire. The sacrifices that each one of them have made to be there for me is on a whole ‘nother level. They said, ‘No, we’re with you.’ Every day of every rehearsal they were there with me. My love for them has only deepened.”
“(The next tour) it’s not about perfection. It’s about excellence. It’s like I have the gift to be able to hold this light. The gift that I receive is being in the reflection of that light when it hits the audience, and that’s what I’ve been working for — I’ve been training to find the ability to hold that light. It’s like this whole spiritual communion between the band and me and the audience,” he said in an interview with People.