To be fair, his cousin Tony Bongiovi owned the studio that was recording the album. Otherwise I highly doubt they would have randomly asked the janitor to sing lead vocals.
Yeah I was gonna say, there are probably many aspiring singers that would take a janitor job at a studio just to be closer to the action. I highly doubt he would have been like "who me? But I'm just a janitor!". More likely he was begging every day to get in there and show off his voice.
Its not just music either. I know of a few janitors who have been able to get into acting by getting a cleaning job on a set. Dusting Hoffman comes to mind.
According to Kris, [it was a National Guard helicopter, Johnny wasn't home, and the song wasn't 'Sunday Morning Comin' Down'](https://youtu.be/fZb41vyUcrQ?t=83). Also, since he mentions being worried about getting grounded rather than arrested, it seems like the helicopter wasn't so much "stolen" as it was "being used by an authorized person for an UNauthorized purpose".
I'll add "misappropriation of national guard materiel" to my "list of things privileged boomers got away with that would land the rest of us in prison" list.
You gotta remember that even authorities are just people. If you can impress your superior with your stupidity and balls, you'll probably keep your job and it stays between you and them.
Yep. IIRC he was installing the cabinets in George's house and the two got to talking so George remembered and called him when they were starting auditions.
IIRC he had already had a fairly decent role in George Lucas's first film American Graffiti so he already had an acting in with george aside from just being a carpenter
That's how he got into American Graffiti. For Star Wars, Lucas wanted to use all new actors. He brought in Ford to coach the actor playing Han on having a more gruff demeanor, like Ford had in American Graffiti. Ultimately, Lucas realized that Ford was the correct choice for the role.
Worth nothing said cousin had a good musical education and already formed two bands, so it wasn’t much of a risk either. It’s more like studio owner asked his cousin, an aspiring young musician, to sing on a track.
“Pickering’s harem” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-women-who-mapped-the-universe-and-still-couldnt-get-any-respect-9287444/
In case people don't get the reference.
The old "self made" illusion is shattered once again.
Edit: from wiki "By mid-1982, out of school and working part-time at a women's shoe store, Jon Bon Jovi took a job at the Power Station Studios, a Manhattan recording facility where his cousin Tony Bongiovi was co-owner. Jon made several demos – including one produced by Billy Squier – and sent them to record companies, though failing to make an impact. His first professional recording was as lead vocals in "R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas," which was part of the Christmas in the Stars album which his cousin co-produced.\[17\]"
["It was different," he said. "Some kids spend all day in front of the tube, but when I was 16, I jammed with Bruce Springsteen.](https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1989/04/07/bon-jovi-ready-to-rock/62618168007/) \- And people are trying to argue he wasn't given special opportunities based on his connections?
A lot of these nepo-baby conversations as related to the entertainment industry is really a combination of connections (duh), growing up in a supportive environment with a lot of inspiring creative genius around you, and actual hard work.
I call it the George Harrison effect. George Harrison was a poor songwriter. He was also in a band with two of the greatest songwriters of the time. A few years of hard work later, along with a fair amount of inherent musical talent, and he became just as good as them.
Ringo Starr, who didn't really put that much focus on songwriting, only write a couple of cute quirky songs.
If anyone is ever upset about "nepo-babies" in the entertainment industry, I would suggest that the appropriate response to that isn't to tear down famous people with famous relatives, but instead to put potential geniuses in supportive environments, so they can work hard and grow in skill.
The whole point of the conversation is that those geniuses never get the chance to be in the environment because their uncle doesn’t own the record studio
I guess, but it's hardly fair when other people are the ones pulling the trick. He's perfectly up front about working there to get the chance to work and being given the job by a relative.
I mean he was a janitor, it's not like he demanded a production job or something. There's a difference between nepotism and using connections. The latter is universal no matter your status in entertainment industries and many others and it is absolutely not in the same league as CEOs being succeeded by their children or whatever.
It's not like the Star Wars Christmas Album launched his career or anything.
Unless you were talking about his janitorial job, that does look like nepotism.
Thank you! This is the detail that everybody wants to skip over. He just wasn't working at some random place and they decided to take a flyer on a young kid full of spirit, he had the connections that allowed him to get through the door and that kind of connection is critical when it comes to Jon bon Jovi being a local name and an international name.
You’d be surprised. This type of thing was commonplace in studios back when they would have recorded this. JBJ was probably working there so he could get a shot at some time in the studio on either side of the glass in exchange for being a custodian. Most engineers of this era have a story similar to this, they start as a janitor and record after hours, then when someone calls up sick or whatever, they get thrown to the wolves and if they do well, get to stay behind the boards.
One of my friends who was a teacher has a student in his class whose last name was Lobrutto. My friend asked the kid if he spoke any Italian at all, which he didn't.
Which is probably for the best, since "lo brutto" means "the ugly" in Italian.
The kid's name translated to Joseph The Ugly.
Italian didn't really exist until the end of the 1800s and even then almost nobody spoke it, it was for intellectuals and writers. None of the immigrants to the US (or almost none) spoke any Italian.
They spoke "italic peninsula languages" (what is commonly called Italian Regional dialects) that are dialects of late medieval vulgar Latin, *not* of Italian, and are barely mutually intelligible (in the best of cases, meaning adjacent regions).
The use of the article "Lo" instead of "il" is or was pretty common especially in southern languages/dialects. Hence surnames like "LoBrutto" but also "LoBello" (famous soccer referee IIRC).
Source: am Italian, and a bit of a language nerd
My understanding was that “Italian” existed before that, it was just called Fiorentino, aka Florentine, because the dialect used in Florence (and by luminaries like Dante) was chosen as the national standard.
Dante is part of how it became standard. His Divine Comedy was insanely popular. The Tuscan/Florentine dialect was also the language of Petrarch, Machiavelli and Boccaccio--other figures that contributed to the popularity and spread.
Yeah, but, and this is critical... Italian was not \*just\* Tuscan. It was Tuscan, plus a good 10-15% of Milanese, all filtered and simplified in pronunciation and standardized.
Italians that are \*not\* from Florence feel \*most\* of the sounds are familiar (but not all: Tuscan languages have a VERY distinct sound and feel), and I can assure you that if someone speaks a Tuscan regional language, very few Italians that are not from there will understand it all.
More than someone speaking Sicilian, Calabrese, Piedmontese, Ligurian... more than any other regional language. But believe me, Florentine is chock full of details that are \*not\* comprehensible by someone who speaks only Italian.
Or that will feel \*extremely\* dated, or old fashioned, or "literary", because Italian has moved on in the last 150 years.
And that gave the Italian region of Lombardy (Lombardia in Italian) its name.
The surname typically belongs to people whose ancestors immigrated from Lombardy.
It happens somewhat regularly when disparate populations are united by a political system. The dialect of the most influential area becomes the standard, “correct” version. Examples are Indonesia (bahasa Indonesia), Philippines (wikang Filipino), and China (Mandarin)
Including such classics as:
*Grandma Got Run Over by an AT-AT*
*Frosty the Snow Mandalorian*
and who could forget...
*You're a Mean One, Mr. Vader* sung by James Earl Jones himself
You know, I always found that song off? Like, maybe he likes model cars? Do you know nothing about your friend? I mean, clearly your close enough to some extent to warrant buying a Christmas(life day) present, but you don’t know if he likes to settle down with a nice book?
Spoiler alert: a brush!
I got this album as a gift in 1998 and I still play it every year. It’s the best. My favorite track is “Merry Merry Christmas” because it’s freaking adorable to hear the droids making toys for the kids.
He's making a list
He's checking it twice
He's going to find out
Who's supporting his new Empire
Anakin is coming to town
He sees you when you're meditating
He knows when you're awake
He doesn't care if you're a master or youngling
So don't get cocky for goodness sake
See, this is a bit, but the actual songs include titles like "What do you get a Wookie for Christmas (when he already owns a comb" and the lyrics "the odds against Christmas being Christmas are 365:1"
I know this because I torture my friends with this album every holiday season
if this is a real fact, its one of those that sounds like complete bullshit..and is worthy of being a reply in one of those /r/askreddit 'whats a true fact that souds like bullshit' questions.
Right, I even had the damn album when I was a kid and never knew that. Of course I didn’t care who sung the songs back then. If it was Star Wars, I wanted it.
The janitor said about the opportunity: "We've gotta hold on to what we've got. It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not. We're got each other and that's a lot, for love. We'll give it a shot."
There is way more to it, he was infto music and his uncle owned the studio. He was only cleaning because he uncle believed in hard work no matter who you are. He would of never had the chance otherwise.
Give it a shot?
> She says, "We've gotta hold on to what we've got
> It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not
> We've got each other and that's a lot for love
> ***We'll give it a shot"***
> Whoa, we're half way there
> Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer
> Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear
> Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer
Music exec: “We need a way to shoehorn Star Wars into a Christmas album. Something like “R2-D2 we wish you a merry Christmas” but not as crappy.” *leaves room*
Producers: “So track one is “R2-D2 we wish you a merry Christmas” *everyone agrees*
This is a cool (and true) story, but it's worth noting that John Bongiovi was already onto his fourth band at the time, opening for larger acts at local venues. His cousin Tony also owned the recording studio where this happened. Tony specifically recommended John to sing for the R2-D2 song. Yes, he happened to be sweeping the floors there (presumably to pick up a bit of extra cash between gigs, and/or to help out his cousin), but this wasn't one of those absurd fairy tales of discovering the janitor's hidden genius talent.
There never existed a single day where Lucas wasn't merchandising Star Wars. It's literally what got his movie made. He kept the merchandise rights in exchange for the film profits basically.
To be fair, his cousin Tony Bongiovi owned the studio that was recording the album. Otherwise I highly doubt they would have randomly asked the janitor to sing lead vocals.
He wouldnt be the first janitor to have a brush with success
Yeah, look at Joe Dirt
Or the bleach boys.
Or Noodles from The Offspring.
Or Will Hunting
Or Stanley Spadowski
Or Bruce Springclean
Or Cyndi Mopper
Or Dr. Jan Itor
I love how this thread is half puns, half examples of real or fictional entertainers who started as cleaners. Peak reddit.
Or Michael Wax-on.
Or Moply Crue
Or the who-ver.
Or Micheal Wax-off.
MY MOP!
SUPPLIES!
Who wants to drink from the fire hose?
You get to drink from the fire hose!
You get to drink from THE FIREHOOOOOOOOOSSSSE!
DON'T YOU LIKE BONANZA??
His name is actually Good Will - you’re thinking of Doctor Huntings Monster
Or clean day
I went to one of their concerts. No one told me not to wear a black shirt. Now it's white.
And Dr. Jan Itor
Knife-wrench. For kids.
No mom, basinet and baby cage aren't the same thing.
That's Dirté
Stop trying to church it up, Dirt.
Trent Reznor
It’s pronounced Deer-tā
Yeah I was gonna say, there are probably many aspiring singers that would take a janitor job at a studio just to be closer to the action. I highly doubt he would have been like "who me? But I'm just a janitor!". More likely he was begging every day to get in there and show off his voice.
One such singer/songwriter was Kris Kristofferson, who worked in the studio prior to his ascent to fame.
Its not just music either. I know of a few janitors who have been able to get into acting by getting a cleaning job on a set. Dusting Hoffman comes to mind.
> Dusting Hoffman I see what you did there.
Meryl Sweep, too.
[удалено]
According to Kris, [it was a National Guard helicopter, Johnny wasn't home, and the song wasn't 'Sunday Morning Comin' Down'](https://youtu.be/fZb41vyUcrQ?t=83). Also, since he mentions being worried about getting grounded rather than arrested, it seems like the helicopter wasn't so much "stolen" as it was "being used by an authorized person for an UNauthorized purpose".
I'll add "misappropriation of national guard materiel" to my "list of things privileged boomers got away with that would land the rest of us in prison" list.
You gotta remember that even authorities are just people. If you can impress your superior with your stupidity and balls, you'll probably keep your job and it stays between you and them.
See, if you put that in a biopic of Kris I wouldn't believe you.
Trent Reznor too I think.
How bout them apples?
[удалено]
Ford was in Lucas' film *American Graffiti* prior to his role in *Star Wars*.
Yep. IIRC he was installing the cabinets in George's house and the two got to talking so George remembered and called him when they were starting auditions.
IIRC he had already had a fairly decent role in George Lucas's first film American Graffiti so he already had an acting in with george aside from just being a carpenter
That's how he got into American Graffiti. For Star Wars, Lucas wanted to use all new actors. He brought in Ford to coach the actor playing Han on having a more gruff demeanor, like Ford had in American Graffiti. Ultimately, Lucas realized that Ford was the correct choice for the role.
He actually continued as a carpenter even after his star wars break. That's why his acting was so wooden.
Trent Reznor
You like apples?
So many folks missing the pun
You mean Master of the Custodial Arts?
Yeah, this wasn’t nearly as happenstance as the title suggests.
The probability is approximately 3,720 to 1
[удалено]
7440 to 2. Evened that for ya.
This is a much more honest title. "The studio needed a new singer so the studio owner asked his cousin to do it."
Worth nothing said cousin had a good musical education and already formed two bands, so it wasn’t much of a risk either. It’s more like studio owner asked his cousin, an aspiring young musician, to sing on a track.
Cousin, but yeah.
Yeah, that would be like a Harvard scientist hiring his maid to categorize stars!
And the name of that maid? Iron maiden.
Her name? Stella.
“Pickering’s harem” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-women-who-mapped-the-universe-and-still-couldnt-get-any-respect-9287444/ In case people don't get the reference.
The old "self made" illusion is shattered once again. Edit: from wiki "By mid-1982, out of school and working part-time at a women's shoe store, Jon Bon Jovi took a job at the Power Station Studios, a Manhattan recording facility where his cousin Tony Bongiovi was co-owner. Jon made several demos – including one produced by Billy Squier – and sent them to record companies, though failing to make an impact. His first professional recording was as lead vocals in "R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas," which was part of the Christmas in the Stars album which his cousin co-produced.\[17\]" ["It was different," he said. "Some kids spend all day in front of the tube, but when I was 16, I jammed with Bruce Springsteen.](https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1989/04/07/bon-jovi-ready-to-rock/62618168007/) \- And people are trying to argue he wasn't given special opportunities based on his connections?
Yep. Damn near impossible to break into the janitoring field without a relative to give you a leg up.
I mean Jon Bon Jovi is insanely talented and a super nice guy too, I'm happy he's successful even if some uncle helped him out.
A lot of these nepo-baby conversations as related to the entertainment industry is really a combination of connections (duh), growing up in a supportive environment with a lot of inspiring creative genius around you, and actual hard work. I call it the George Harrison effect. George Harrison was a poor songwriter. He was also in a band with two of the greatest songwriters of the time. A few years of hard work later, along with a fair amount of inherent musical talent, and he became just as good as them. Ringo Starr, who didn't really put that much focus on songwriting, only write a couple of cute quirky songs. If anyone is ever upset about "nepo-babies" in the entertainment industry, I would suggest that the appropriate response to that isn't to tear down famous people with famous relatives, but instead to put potential geniuses in supportive environments, so they can work hard and grow in skill.
The whole point of the conversation is that those geniuses never get the chance to be in the environment because their uncle doesn’t own the record studio
I guess, but it's hardly fair when other people are the ones pulling the trick. He's perfectly up front about working there to get the chance to work and being given the job by a relative. I mean he was a janitor, it's not like he demanded a production job or something. There's a difference between nepotism and using connections. The latter is universal no matter your status in entertainment industries and many others and it is absolutely not in the same league as CEOs being succeeded by their children or whatever.
It's not like the Star Wars Christmas Album launched his career or anything. Unless you were talking about his janitorial job, that does look like nepotism.
Any story that ends with “his name was” I just assume is completely twisting facts to the point of being BS.
I think I just learned that Jon Bon Jovi's last name is actually Bongiovi.
Also, Chef Boyardee's last name is actually Boiardi
I wanna speak to Mr Bovine Jovi himself !
Thank you! This is the detail that everybody wants to skip over. He just wasn't working at some random place and they decided to take a flyer on a young kid full of spirit, he had the connections that allowed him to get through the door and that kind of connection is critical when it comes to Jon bon Jovi being a local name and an international name.
I saw a documentary on how a janitor did a bunch of math problems though
I saw that. It was called "The Janitor and the Diameter."
You’d be surprised. This type of thing was commonplace in studios back when they would have recorded this. JBJ was probably working there so he could get a shot at some time in the studio on either side of the glass in exchange for being a custodian. Most engineers of this era have a story similar to this, they start as a janitor and record after hours, then when someone calls up sick or whatever, they get thrown to the wolves and if they do well, get to stay behind the boards.
Pretty sure this is exactly how Trent Reznor/NIN got started. Recorded Pretty Hate Machine while working at a studio.
But that's exactly the point. This wasn't a random encounter as the title might lead you to believe. Edit: added "might"
Friggin nepotism. Lol
I'd love to see what percentage of artists with top 10 songs are related to someone else who has been in the music industry since before their success
Bon Jovi is the band. You’re thinking of Bon Jovi’s monster.
Knowledge is knowing that Bon Jovi is not the band. Wisdom is knowing that Bon Jovi is the band.
Knowledge is knowing that Bon Jovi is the tomato and not the monster. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad
I say Bon Jovi, you say tomato.
It's only Bon Jovi if it comes from the Middlesex region of New Jersey. It's Bongiovi if it comes from anywhere else.
Sparkling Bongiovi*
Everywhere else it's "sparkling rock"
Yes, Mr Bovine Joni himself
But his name wasn't Jon Bon Jovi. It was John Bongiovi.
Potato Potatovi
Potato, Poe Tah Toe
Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew
Potato, Edgar Allan [Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe](https://youtu.be/ZMmLeV47Au4)
Bovine Joni
For the record, when you go through chemo, your beard hair falls out too
Well uh…filibuster
How about we go toe to toe on bird law?
First of all, through god all things are possible so jot that down
I want to make a deal with MR. BOVINE JONI himself!
https://i.imgur.com/h7EWAjm.jpeg
I JUST got that Cows with Guns song out of my head… dammit!!!!!!!!
Huh, so his name means John Goodgood?
One of my friends who was a teacher has a student in his class whose last name was Lobrutto. My friend asked the kid if he spoke any Italian at all, which he didn't. Which is probably for the best, since "lo brutto" means "the ugly" in Italian. The kid's name translated to Joseph The Ugly.
Technically, it would be “IL brutto”. “Lo” is the wrong article.
Why is it LoBrutto then? Did the Italian just made a mistake in their own language and kept at it for generations?
Knowing my wife’s immigrant Italian family, this sounds right.
Italian didn't really exist until the end of the 1800s and even then almost nobody spoke it, it was for intellectuals and writers. None of the immigrants to the US (or almost none) spoke any Italian. They spoke "italic peninsula languages" (what is commonly called Italian Regional dialects) that are dialects of late medieval vulgar Latin, *not* of Italian, and are barely mutually intelligible (in the best of cases, meaning adjacent regions). The use of the article "Lo" instead of "il" is or was pretty common especially in southern languages/dialects. Hence surnames like "LoBrutto" but also "LoBello" (famous soccer referee IIRC). Source: am Italian, and a bit of a language nerd
My understanding was that “Italian” existed before that, it was just called Fiorentino, aka Florentine, because the dialect used in Florence (and by luminaries like Dante) was chosen as the national standard.
Dante is part of how it became standard. His Divine Comedy was insanely popular. The Tuscan/Florentine dialect was also the language of Petrarch, Machiavelli and Boccaccio--other figures that contributed to the popularity and spread.
Yeah, but, and this is critical... Italian was not \*just\* Tuscan. It was Tuscan, plus a good 10-15% of Milanese, all filtered and simplified in pronunciation and standardized. Italians that are \*not\* from Florence feel \*most\* of the sounds are familiar (but not all: Tuscan languages have a VERY distinct sound and feel), and I can assure you that if someone speaks a Tuscan regional language, very few Italians that are not from there will understand it all. More than someone speaking Sicilian, Calabrese, Piedmontese, Ligurian... more than any other regional language. But believe me, Florentine is chock full of details that are \*not\* comprehensible by someone who speaks only Italian. Or that will feel \*extremely\* dated, or old fashioned, or "literary", because Italian has moved on in the last 150 years.
Or famous coach Vince Lombardi, which if I'm not mistaken translates to "the mbardi"
Jokes aside it means Lombard basically, a alternative spelling of Langobard, a Germanic tribe that conquered the peninsula for a period.
And that gave the Italian region of Lombardy (Lombardia in Italian) its name. The surname typically belongs to people whose ancestors immigrated from Lombardy.
Reminds me of Elton John, spanish of course for "The Ton John"
I'm learning so much today
This is the most interesting thing I have read in a while - novel information that changes my understanding of the world.
It happens somewhat regularly when disparate populations are united by a political system. The dialect of the most influential area becomes the standard, “correct” version. Examples are Indonesia (bahasa Indonesia), Philippines (wikang Filipino), and China (Mandarin)
More like John Good Youths
Eventually wouldn't he age and become John Goodman?
Jon Jabronei
You keep on using this word "jabroni" and... it's awesome.
He’s not delivery!
Nope, his name was Johnathan Bonithan Joviathan.
What's his name now?
Albert Einstein! *Sound of everybody clapping*
Bovine Joni
I'll only speak to Mr bovine Joni himself!
So many jabronis
You fuck one goat…
But…. Bovine means cow
Found the cow fucker
You fuck one cow…
Owns an arena football team that does a lot of charity work with cancer patients.
Nobody cares about arena football teams we’re doing the cancer thing now
it still is, but it used to be, too
Including such classics as: *Grandma Got Run Over by an AT-AT* *Frosty the Snow Mandalorian* and who could forget... *You're a Mean One, Mr. Vader* sung by James Earl Jones himself
What do you get a Wookiee for Christmas when he already has a comb?
He doesn’t wear a tie clip- and he doesn’t use shaving foam.
You know, I always found that song off? Like, maybe he likes model cars? Do you know nothing about your friend? I mean, clearly your close enough to some extent to warrant buying a Christmas(life day) present, but you don’t know if he likes to settle down with a nice book?
Spoiler alert: a brush! I got this album as a gift in 1998 and I still play it every year. It’s the best. My favorite track is “Merry Merry Christmas” because it’s freaking adorable to hear the droids making toys for the kids.
And of course "I saw mommy kissing her twin brother"
He's making a list He's checking it twice He's going to find out Who's supporting his new Empire Anakin is coming to town He sees you when you're meditating He knows when you're awake He doesn't care if you're a master or youngling So don't get cocky for goodness sake
[удалено]
this reads like a who’s line skit, literally could hear collin and ryan saying it in my head
See, this is a bit, but the actual songs include titles like "What do you get a Wookie for Christmas (when he already owns a comb" and the lyrics "the odds against Christmas being Christmas are 365:1" I know this because I torture my friends with this album every holiday season
You are evil. Clever. Funny. But evil.
Rudolph the Red-Mawed Rancor.
Silent Alderaan Vader Claus is coming to Hoth Rocking around the Ewok Tree Oh Little Town of Mos Eisley Little Jedi Boy
Oh, what a laugh it would have been if Ani had only seen Leia kissing her brother last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljoR6-D-f_E
> "Our chimney's big and round, so you can come right down." R2-D2 is Santa?!?!!?
I saw mommy kissing R2D2
That was so much worse than I expected. I listened to it all though.
It is now one of my favourite Christmas songs.
Sweet Jesus.
This sounds like one of those fake "remember this kid?" memes
if this is a real fact, its one of those that sounds like complete bullshit..and is worthy of being a reply in one of those /r/askreddit 'whats a true fact that souds like bullshit' questions.
asdsadsadsadsa
As a long time Star Wars fan, I'm surprised that I've never heard of this album before in my life.
Right, I even had the damn album when I was a kid and never knew that. Of course I didn’t care who sung the songs back then. If it was Star Wars, I wanted it.
[удалено]
My local college station played the album in its entirety a couple years ago. I had never heard it either and was too fascinated to turn it off.
[And R2 repaid Jon’s efforts by contributing to Bon Jovi’s vocals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsO8NmispEc&pp=ygUWcjJkMiBsaXZpbiBvbiBhIHByYXllcg%3D%3D)
Don't need to have sound on to hear that clip.
That's crazy he was named the same as the rock star Jon Bon Jovi.
Why should I change my name? He’s the one who’s wanted dead or alive!
And that Bon Jovi’s name? Albert Einstein.
Mr. Bovine Joni
Question: is this a laser pointer? Can I have it?
.. No.
I’m gonna go ahead and take it anyway
I wanna talk to Mr Bovine Joni himself!
Christmas staple in our house. Doesn't get any better than "What Do You Get a Wookiee For Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb?)"
Let’s get him a brush!
The janitor said about the opportunity: "We've gotta hold on to what we've got. It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not. We're got each other and that's a lot, for love. We'll give it a shot."
He went on to state, "It's my life, it's now or never. Cause I ain't gonna live forever."
And that man's name? Lynyrd Skynyrd
There is way more to it, he was infto music and his uncle owned the studio. He was only cleaning because he uncle believed in hard work no matter who you are. He would of never had the chance otherwise.
[удалено]
RIP Mitch
Today he wears a brown robe and calls himself Ovi-Bon Jovi. He's a strange old hermit who lives beyond the Jersey Shore.
I read that in Casey Kasem's voice.
I have this album. I don't think I've ever listened to it, but perhaps I should give it a shot.
Give it a shot? > She says, "We've gotta hold on to what we've got > It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not > We've got each other and that's a lot for love > ***We'll give it a shot"*** > Whoa, we're half way there > Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer > Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear > Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer
This reads like an "... And that student was Alfred Eimsteim" memes lmfao
Bovine Joni himself
Music exec: “We need a way to shoehorn Star Wars into a Christmas album. Something like “R2-D2 we wish you a merry Christmas” but not as crappy.” *leaves room* Producers: “So track one is “R2-D2 we wish you a merry Christmas” *everyone agrees*
This is a cool (and true) story, but it's worth noting that John Bongiovi was already onto his fourth band at the time, opening for larger acts at local venues. His cousin Tony also owned the recording studio where this happened. Tony specifically recommended John to sing for the R2-D2 song. Yes, he happened to be sweeping the floors there (presumably to pick up a bit of extra cash between gigs, and/or to help out his cousin), but this wasn't one of those absurd fairy tales of discovering the janitor's hidden genius talent.
Remember the good old days before Lucas turned Star Wars into a cornball merchandising vehicle? Yeah... about that...
There never existed a single day where Lucas wasn't merchandising Star Wars. It's literally what got his movie made. He kept the merchandise rights in exchange for the film profits basically.
And then they all stood up and clapped
And the broom grew up to be Britney Spears
[удалено]
I wore the SHIT out of this album as a kid .,..... My Parents hated it lolol