He left in 1983 when he got a record deal.
RELEASE DATES BON JOVI INTO THE ECHO PROFESSIONAL
In 1980, when Meco was there recording Christmas in the Stars: The Star Wars Christmas Album, Bongiovi recommended Bon Jovi for the song " R2-D2 We Wish You A Merry Christmas." This became his first professional recording (credited as John Bongiovi). When he was seventeen, Bon Jovi was working sweeping floors at his cousin Tony Bongiovi's recording studio, The Power Station. Bon Jovi also performed with bands called The Rest, The Lechers and John Bongiovi and the Wild Ones.
It was not long before he hooked up with keyboardist David Bryan (real name: David Brian Rashbaum), who played with him in a ten-piece rhythm and blues band called Atlantic City Expressway. By the time he was 16, Bon Jovi was playing clubs. As a result, his academic records displayed less than spectacular achievements and poor grades. īon Jovi spent most of his adolescence bunking school to opt for music activities instead and he ended up playing in local bands with friends and his cousin Tony who owned the then famous New York recording studio, the Power Station. He later transferred to Sayreville War Memorial High School in Parlin, New Jersey. Joseph High School, in Metuchen, New Jersey, during his freshman and sophomore years.
He also spent summers in Erie, Pennsylvania, with his grandparents, as he said when he came to a sold-out (over 15,000) Veterans Stadium in 1988.
He has two brothers, Anthony and Matthew. Jon Bon Jovi was born Joseph Francis Herodes Horvath Bongiovi, Jr., in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, the son of two former Marines, hairdresser John Francis Bongiovi, Sr., and Carol Sharkey.
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