By Mark Nobes, chief editor
This video clip features rock band Bon Jovi performing their 80s smash hit "Livin' On A Prayer" live at Wembley Stadium in London during 1995. I'm pleased to say that the audio quality of the video is really decent, too.
The lyrics to the song are about a normal working class couple who are finding it difficult to balance their finances, and, therefore, also struggling with their relationship. I do remember that the track received a lot of radio airplay, and the video was shown very regularly on MTV. You could describe Slippery When Wet as the ultimate party rock
album, full of anthemic, sing-a-long classics that everyone can raise
their arms in the air to. Having said that, it does have its more
serious moments. But this is an album that was released during the big
hair and ripped jeans metal era, when bands such as Europe and Poison
were dominating the charts, before it was all destroyed by power ballads
and Spinal Tap.
No doubt, many of you were just kids or teenagers at the time that Livin' On A Prayer
was released - I was in my late teens - but we should all be very glad
to have experienced a very special 80s metal moment that we'll probably
never see the likes of again - it has a special place in our hearts.
