Bon Jovi Receives Hero’s Welcome at SXSW Docuseries Premiere

Austin is some distance from Sayreville, New Jersey, however Bon Jovi gained a fatherland hero’s welcome all of the similar after they arrived at SXSW on Thursday for the premiere in their upcoming Hulu docuseries, Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Tale.

The band gave the impression on the Paramount Theatre along Thank You, Goodnight director Gotham Chopra and his father and writer Deepak Chopra, who moderated a brief Q&A with singer Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan and drummer Tico Torres. Ahead of that, even though, the target market watched the primary episode of the four-part docuseries, which is able to debut on April 26 on Hulu and Disney+ the world over.

The primary episode, filmed in 2022, units the degree for Bon Jovi’s drawing close fortieth anniversary (which came about in 2023), and the band is noticed rehearsing broadly for a 15-date enviornment excursion. It isn’t all smiles and heat, fuzzy nostalgia even though: As lovers now know, Jon Bon Jovi was once suffering with vocal problems that in the long run required him to go through medialization surgical operation to regain correct serve as of his atrophied vocal wire.

This contemporary-day pictures is interspersed with archival pictures and storytelling to chronicle the upward push of Bon Jovi from a scrappy Jersey Shore bar band to stadium-filling superstars. Episode one naturally specializes in the early days and hits all of the anticipated rock-doc beats, however Thank You, Goodnight options sufficient ancillary gamers from the Bon Jovi universe and past to stay issues fascinating — and it ends on a cliffhanger of types that may have lovers smashing the “play subsequent” button (and had the SXSW crowd roaring with applause).

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Bon Jovi Discusses New Music and Album at SXSW Movie Premiere

Thursday was once a momentous day for Bon Jovi for extra causes than the Thank You, Goodnight premiere. The band additionally launched its new unmarried “Mythical” and introduced its upcoming album Perpetually, out June 7. Jon Bon Jovi touched on each whilst chatting with Chopra after the screening.

“The discharge of ‘Mythical’ lately and the coming near near album is simply all about pleasure,” the frontman mentioned. “And it is that pursuit of excellence in order that if and after we excursion once more, that we will be able to pass available in the market and in reality include it, simply sheer excitement. And that’s the reason all that issues: not anything greater than the sheer excitement of taking a look on the guys that I need to be with on that degree, and making a song those songs for you.”