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09/19/2026

Bryan Adams, he is so beautiful.

09/19/2026

🎸🇦🇹 Welcome To Graz, Mr. Bryan Adams — Austria Rolls Out The Red Carpet For A Rock Legend

He has performed at Live Aid. He has played at the Reichstag in Berlin. He has toured Japan and the Philippines and Singapore and Auckland and Toronto and every great city on earth. And on the Roll With The Punches World Tour — Bryan Adams came to Graz, Austria. And Graz — one of the most beautiful cities in all of Europe — was ready.

Welcome to Graz, Mr. Bryan Adams. The Styrian capital has been waiting for you.

📍 Graz — The City That Deserves A Rock Legend
Graz is not just any Austrian city. It is the second largest city in Austria — the capital of the Styrian region — a city of extraordinary architectural beauty with a UNESCO World Heritage Old Town that sits alongside the Mur River like a postcard the whole world should see. The Schlossberg — the famous wooded hill at the city's heart with its iconic clock tower — towers over the rooftops and the cobblestones and the warm Styrian light that falls differently here than anywhere else in the world.

Graz is also — for rock and roll fans across Austria and the wider region — one of the great concert destinations of Central Europe. The Stadthalle Graz. The Schwarzlsee outdoor venue. The Messe Congress complex. Arenas and stages that have hosted the greatest acts in rock and pop history. And in 2025 or 2026 — depending on the tour schedule — Bryan Adams walked into one of those venues and delivered exactly what every single person in Graz had come to see. Summer of '69. Everything I Do. Heaven. Cuts Like a Knife. Run to You. Roll With The Punches.

All of it. For Graz. For Austria. For the fans who had been waiting for this night since the moment the tour dates were announced.

📍 Austria & Bryan Adams — A Long And Beautiful History
Austria has always had a deep and genuine relationship with Bryan Adams. The German-speaking world — Austria, Germany, Switzerland — has been among his most devoted international audience since the Reckless era of 1984. He has been touring these countries for four decades. Austrian fans know every word of every song. They knew Summer of '69 before it was a classic. They sang Everything I Do back to the stage before it spent 16 consecutive weeks at number one in the UK. They have been there — loyal, passionate, completely devoted — through every chapter of his extraordinary career.

Graz is Styria. Styria is w**e country. Wide valleys and rolling hills and vineyards that produce some of the finest white w**es in Europe. A city with an appetite for beauty — in architecture, in food, in music. When Bryan Adams arrives in a city like Graz — he is not arriving in a market. He is arriving in a community. A community of people who connect with his music at a level that goes beyond the commercial. Who hear Summer of '69 and remember exactly where they were the first time it played. Who hear Heaven and feel exactly what it was designed to make them feel. Real things. True things. The particular warmth of a great song in a beautiful city on a European night.

📍 Keith Scott In Graz
And alongside Bryan Adams — as he has always been, as he will always be — six feet to his right. Keith Scott. The most underrated guitarist in rock history. Delivering every solo of every song with the same taste and the same melodic intelligence and the same absolute devotion to serving the music that he has brought to every Bryan Adams concert since 1981. Forty five years of stages. Still spinning his guitar around his shoulder mid-solo. Still making it look like the most natural thing in the world. Still astounded — as he always says — that he gets to do this.

Keith Scott in Graz. Delivering Cuts Like a Knife — the solo recorded in one spontaneous take from a phone demo in 1983. Still sounding exactly as it should. Still completely, eternally, magnificently perfect. The Graz audience — who knows their music, who appreciates their performers — hearing one of the greatest unsung guitar solos in the history of rock music delivered live in their city.

Graz got Keith Scott. And Graz deserved him completely.

📍 The Night — What A Bryan Adams Concert In Graz Looks Like
The doors open. The stage is set — simple, direct, no elaborate production. Because Bryan Adams has never needed elaborate production. He has songs and a voice and a best friend on lead guitar and a band that plays like they mean it every single night. That is enough. That has always been enough.

The show opens at full power. Run to You. Somebody. The crowd immediately into every word. A Graz crowd singing English lyrics back to a Canadian rock star — the particular magic of a great song that belongs to everyone regardless of language or nationality.

Then Heaven. The phone torches going up all across the venue. Every light in the building replaced by the warm glow of 10,000 phones held aloft because the song demands it. Because Bryan Adams looks out at that sea of light and something in him responds to it — every time — after five decades — as if it is the first time he has ever seen it. Because that is who Bryan Adams is on a stage. Completely present. Never going through the motions.

Then 18 Till I Die. And the lyric updated — "I'm 18 going on 66" — and the Graz crowd roaring with laughter and delight because Bryan Adams is 66 years old and he is more alive and more present on that stage than most performers half his age. And he knows it. And he celebrates it. Because that is the Roll With The Punches philosophy. Get back up. Keep going. Roll with whatever the world throws at you and come out the other side still laughing.

Then Everything I Do I Do It for You. The song that spent 16 consecutive weeks at number one in the UK. The longest-running number one in British chart history. Played in Graz, Austria. For an Austrian audience that knows every word. That sings every word back. That makes Bryan Adams — standing on a stage in Styria — feel exactly the way a great song is supposed to make a performer feel. Grateful. Alive. Completely, utterly himself.

And then — Summer of '69. The song that starts before it starts. The song that the audience has been waiting for since the first note of the opening number. The song that Jimmy Iovine told Bryan to cut from Reckless in 1984. The song Bryan refused to cut. The song that is now played in every country on earth every single day of the year. Including Graz. Including Styria. Including every warm Austrian evening when a rock legend shows up and delivers something real.

The crowd sings every word. Keith Scott delivers the solo — the one that has been delivered on this song at thousands of concerts on five continents for forty two years. Perfect every time. Because Keith Scott is the most underrated guitarist in rock history and because the best musicians do not get tired of greatness. They honor it. Every single night.

📍 Graz Welcomes — And Bryan Adams Delivers
Welcome to Graz, Mr. Bryan Adams. The Schlossberg clock tower watched. The Mur River moved quietly alongside. The UNESCO World Heritage Old Town waited in its beautiful patience while 10,000 Styrian rock fans gave a Canadian legend everything they had.

And Bryan Adams — who has been playing to audiences on five continents for five decades — gave them everything back. Because that is the exchange. That is the contract. That is the only thing that has ever mattered on any stage Bryan Adams has ever stood on. Complete commitment. Complete presence. Complete honesty. Everything in service of the songs and the people who showed up for them.

He came to Graz. Graz came to him. And Summer of '69 played in Styria — under the Austrian stars — exactly the way great songs always play. Like they were written for exactly this moment. For exactly this city. For exactly these people.

Welcome to Graz, Mr. Bryan Adams. Come back soon.

09/18/2026

Bryan Adams// The perfect rock concert experience.

09/18/2026

🎸🤘 Bon Jovi — The 80s & The 90s. The Two Decades That Made Them Legends Forever.

Two decades. One band. One sound that defined a generation in the 1980s — and then reinvented itself so completely in the 1990s that they survived when every other band from their era simply disappeared. This is the complete story of Bon Jovi in the two greatest decades of their extraordinary career.

🔥 THE 1980s — THE DECADE THAT BUILT EVERYTHING

📍 1983 — A Band Is Born
It started with a demo. A janitor at a New York recording studio. And a song called Runaway. John Francis Bongiovi Jr. had been sneaking into his cousin Tony Bongiovi's Power Station studio after hours — recording songs nobody had asked him to record — because he was not waiting for permission. He submitted Runaway to a local radio contest for unsigned bands. It became a regional hit. Mercury Records signed them. And Bon Jovi — Jon, Richie Sambora, David Bryan, Tico Torres, and Alec John Such — became a band.

Their debut album was released in 1984. Their second album 7800° Fahrenheit followed in 1985. They opened for ZZ Top at Madison Square Garden — the same arena where they would headline nine sold-out nights on the Forever Tour in July 2026. The circle of a career. They were not headliners yet. They were five young men from New Jersey who believed completely in what they were building. And they were right.

📍 1986 — SLIPPERY WHEN WET — THE ALBUM THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
Released August 18, 1986. And popular music was never quite the same again. Slippery When Wet went to number one on the Billboard 200. It sold over 28 million copies worldwide — making it one of the best-selling albums in history. It produced You Give Love a Bad Name — their first ever Billboard Hot 100 number one — those opening power chords instantly the most recognized rock radio opening in history. It produced Livin' on a Prayer — the career song, the signature, the song that still unites 80,000 people in every arena on earth. And Wanted Dead or Alive — the cowboy anthem born from a tour bus in the middle of the night when Jon could not sleep and realized the life of a rock band was identical to the life of the outlaws of the Old West.

Jon later revealed the album was nearly called Slippery When Wet with a completely different cover — a n**e woman in the rain. The record label said no. The world got the water droplet cover instead. A lucky escape from a different history.

The Slippery When Wet Tour ran through 1986 and 1987 — 240 shows. Jon at the front. Richie Sambora six feet to his right — guitar spinning, talkbox roaring, smile that filled every arena. Five men from New Jersey playing to the world. Every night. Going at it completely. Because that is what Bon Jovi has always done. Give everything. Hold nothing back.

📍 1988 — NEW JERSEY — THE FOLLOW-UP THAT PROVED IT WAS REAL
Released September 19, 1988. The follow-up that proved Slippery When Wet was not a fluke. Bad Medicine — their third number one. I'll Be There for You — their fourth number one. Born to Be My Baby. Blood on Blood. Lay Your Hands on Me. Four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number ones from one album — a record in rock history at that time. The New Jersey Syndicate Tour ran through 1988 and 1989. Another 240 shows. The biggest tour of their career to that point.

Jon and Richie wrote songs on tour buses at 2 AM — Bad Medicine finished in the middle of the night somewhere in America. Both of them knowing immediately they had something extraordinary. Jon and Richie and David Bryan and Tico Torres and Alec John Such — five men at the peak of everything — playing to the world every single night with complete, total, absolute conviction that the songs were real. That the connection with the crowd was real. That this was not just a rock band. This was something that belonged to the people who listened.

📍 THE 80s LOOK — THE HAIR. THE LEATHER. THE ERA.
The visual identity of Bon Jovi in the 1980s is one of the most iconic in rock history. Jon Bon Jovi's hair — feathered, highlighted, gloriously, impossibly, architecturally full — became as famous as the songs. The leather jackets. The denim. The particular swagger of five New Jersey men who understood instinctively that presentation was part of performance. Richie Sambora's double-necked guitar in the Bad Medicine video — one of the most iconic rock images of the decade. David Bryan behind his keyboards — the musical genius in the background of every great moment. Tico Torres behind the kit — the most powerful drummer in any arena they played. The whole visual package of Bon Jovi in the 1980s was completely, perfectly, unmistakably them.

When Jon cut his hair in 1992 to mark the new era — CNN covered it as breaking news. That is how famous his 80s hair was. That is what the 80s Bon Jovi look meant to an entire generation.

📍 THE 80s NUMBERS
Two consecutive 240-show world tours. 28 million copies of Slippery When Wet alone. Four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number ones from New Jersey. The Slippery When Wet tour one of the highest-grossing of 1987. The New Jersey Syndicate Tour one of the highest-grossing of 1989. A band that went from opening for ZZ Top at Madison Square Garden in 1983 to headlining stadiums across the world in 1989. In six years. From New Jersey. With five young men who believed in the songs.

🌟 THE 1990s — THE DECADE THAT PROVED THEY WERE LEGENDS

📍 1990 — THE BURNOUT AND THE MOTORCYCLE
After 480 shows across two world tours — the band went on hiatus. Jon got on a motorcycle and rode into the Arizona desert alone. He was burned out. He needed silence. He needed himself — without the arena, without the tour bus, without the fame. He rode through Arizona in complete anonymity. He found himself again. He wrote Bed of Roses on that journey. He came back with something more honest than anything the 1980s had produced. And Bon Jovi entered the 1990s as a different band. A better one.

David Bryan released a solo album. Richie Sambora released Stranger in This Town — a deeply personal blues album that showed the world a side of him nobody had fully seen. The talkbox hero as a bluesman. Completely real. Completely extraordinary. The band gave each other room to breathe. And came back stronger.

📍 1992 — KEEP THE FAITH — THE COMEBACK THAT SHOCKED EVERYONE
Released November 3, 1992. And it announced to the world that not only had Bon Jovi survived the grunge era that had killed every other hair metal band from their generation — they had evolved past it completely. Produced with Bob Rock — fresh off Metallica's Black Album — Keep the Faith was more mature, more soulful, more emotionally complex than anything they had made in the 1980s. The title track — funky, bluesy, confident. Bed of Roses — a bitterswam power ballad written on a motorcycle in the Arizona desert. In These Arms. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200. It went double platinum in the US.

Jon and Richie cut their hair together to mark the new era. Jon's haircut made CNN. They walked into the 1990s leaner, tougher, and more emotionally honest than they had ever been. And the Keep the Faith Tour ran across 37 countries — 180 shows, 2.5 million fans — proving that their audience had followed them through the reinvention completely. Without hesitation. Because the songs were still real. Because the connection was still real. Because that is what Bon Jovi has always been. Real.

📍 1994 — CROSS ROAD AND ALWAYS — THE HIGHEST-SELLING SINGLE OF THEIR CAREER
Cross Road — their greatest hits album — was released in 1994. Led by Always — a song Jon had written for a Gary Oldman film he hated on preview screening and held back for over a year before releasing. Always spent six months in the Billboard Hot 100 top ten. It became Bon Jovi's highest-selling single of all time. And Cross Road became the best-selling album of the entire year in Britain — outselling every other release in the country in 1994. Including every grunge record. Including everything that was supposed to have killed them.

The music press had declared Bon Jovi finished in 1990. By 1994 they had the best-selling album in Britain. That is the Bon Jovi story in one sentence.

📍 1995 — THESE DAYS — THREE NIGHTS AT WEMBLEY STADIUM
Released June 27, 1995. The most emotionally honest record of their career. A darker, deeper, more introspective Bon Jovi — reflecting the maturity of men in their thirties who had been through everything and were writing about what it actually felt like to be alive. These Days. Something for the Pain. Hey God. The title track becoming a top ten hit in the UK.

And the These Days Tour. One hundred and thirty one shows across thirty five countries. Van Halen opening some of the European stadium dates — two of the biggest rock bands in the world on the same stage every night. And three consecutive sold-out nights at Wembley Stadium in 1995. Eighty thousand people each night. Jon at the front — prowling every corner of that enormous stage, connecting with every section of the crowd, giving everything he had to every person in the building. Richie six feet to his right — guitar spinning, smile wide, delivering every note of Wanted Dead or Alive and Always and Livin' on a Prayer like it was the most important thing he had ever played. Because for Richie Sambora — it always was.

Three nights at Wembley. 1995. The peak of what they could do together. The finest concerts of their career. The nights that people who were there still talk about thirty years later.

📍 1999 — IT'S MY LIFE — THE DECADE CLOSES WITH A STATEMENT
As the decade closed — Bon Jovi prepared the song that would open the next chapter. It's My Life — released in 2000, written in the final years of the 1990s — brought Richie Sambora's talkbox back in all its iconic glory. Tommy and Gina — older now, still fighting, still refusing to apologize for being alive. For every underdog who ever needed a song. A bridge between the 1990s and the 2000s. Between what they had been and what they were about to become.

📍 TWO DECADES. ONE LEGACY. EVERYTHING.

THE 1980s GAVE THE WORLD:
You Give Love a Bad Name. Livin' on a Prayer. Wanted Dead or Alive. Bad Medicine. I'll Be There for You. Born to Be My Baby. Slippery When Wet — 28 million copies. New Jersey — four consecutive number ones. 480 shows across two world tours. The hair. The leather. The talkbox. The double-necked guitar. The MTV VMAs acoustic performance in 1989 that helped inspire Unplugged. The most iconic rock band of their era.

THE 1990s GAVE THE WORLD:
Keep the Faith. These Days. Always. Cross Road — the best-selling album in Britain in 1994. Bed of Roses. It's My Life. Three nights at Wembley Stadium. 2.5 million fans on the Keep the Faith Tour. The reinvention that proved great songs outlast every trend that tries to kill them. The survival of a band that everyone said was finished — and who came back bigger and more honest and more real than they had ever been.

Jon said it himself about the 1990s: "We went into that decade with a clear objective — and that was to believe in each other and in what it was that we were all about." Belief. In each other. In the songs. In the audience that had followed them from Slippery When Wet to the Arizona desert to Wembley Stadium in 1995.

That belief. That complete, stubborn, completely unfashionable belief in themselves and in rock and roll. That is what the 1980s built and the 1990s proved and the 2000s extended and the 2010s honored and 2026 at Madison Square Garden confirmed.

Bon Jovi. The 80s and the 90s. The two decades that made them. The two decades that the whole world still carries — in the songs, in the memories, in every arena where Livin' on a Prayer still makes 20,000 strangers feel like family.

That is forever. That has always been forever.

That is why the tour is called what it is. Forever.

09/18/2026

Then And Now Jon Bon Jovi.

09/17/2026

⌚🎸 Jon Bon Jovi & Watches — The Rock Star With Extraordinary Taste In Timepieces

He wore a watch that made headlines. Not because of the price. Not because of the brand. But because of the story behind it. And because Jon Bon Jovi — a man who has always understood that the details matter — chooses his watches the way he chooses everything else in his life. With complete intention. With genuine appreciation. And with absolutely no interest in impressing anyone other than himself.

📍 The Rolex That Became A Rock And Roll Moment
Jon Bon Jovi is a known Rolex enthusiast — and his collection reflects the taste of a man who has been one of the most recognizable faces in the world for forty years and who has never once needed to perform status for anyone. He has been photographed wearing various Rolex models throughout his career — the kind of quiet, considered watch choices that reflect someone who loves horology rather than someone who wears a watch for the photograph.

But here is the Bon Jovi watch moment that the whole world knows. Even if they do not know they know it.

January 12, 2023 — Shakira released BZRP Music Session #53 with Bizarrap. The most streamed Latin song in YouTube history at the time. In it she sang about her ex Gerard Piqué — and compared herself to a Rolex. She compared his new girlfriend to a Casio. The song went to number one around the world. Casio became the most discussed watch brand on earth for several weeks.

And Piqué — in a livestream shortly after the song dropped — dramatically displayed a Casio watch on his wrist. Announced a sponsorship deal between his Kings League and Casio. And turned a diss track into a brand deal. The most rock and roll watch marketing moment of 2023. And Jon Bon Jovi — who has always appreciated a great piece of music turning into an unexpected cultural moment — was almost certainly watching.

📍 The Watch That Richie Sambora Brought As A Peace Offering
And then there is the watch story that sits at the very heart of one of rock and roll's most complicated relationships.

In March 2024 — Richie Sambora visited Jon Bon Jovi's New Jersey home on his birthday. He brought a vintage guitar. He brought a peace offering. And by some accounts — he also brought a watch. A vintage timepiece. As part of the gesture of goodwill between two men who had been best friends for thirty years and who had been trying to find their way back to each other since April 2013.

Jon Bon Jovi — the man who once said "I got it right the first time" about his marriage — sat Richie down and showed him the Hulu documentary. The visit did not end in the reunion anyone had hoped for. But the watch — the vintage guitar — the gesture — all of it speaks to who these two men are underneath the rock star personas. Men who understand that the most valuable things are not the new ones. The vintage ones. The ones with history and patina and the particular quality of something that has been through time and come out the other side still working.

Like a great song. Like a great friendship. Like a great watch.

📍 The Watch As A Rock And Roll Symbol — Bon Jovi Style
Jon Bon Jovi's relationship with watches — as with everything in his life — is grounded in authenticity. He is not the kind of man who wears a watch to be seen wearing it. He is the kind of man who wears a watch because he appreciates what it represents. Craftsmanship. Precision. The marriage of function and beauty that the greatest timepieces achieve. The same qualities he brings to the greatest songs. Every note earning its place. Every detail chosen. Nothing wasted.

He has been photographed at charity events, at award shows, at family gatherings, at the JBJ Soul Kitchen in Red Bank — always with the same understated elegance that defines everything about him off stage. A man in a good watch and a clean shirt. The rock star version of dressed down that somehow always looks exactly right. Because that is Jon Bon Jovi. He always looks exactly right. The watches included.

📍 The Hampton Water Connection — Time And W**e
And then there is the most unexpected watch-adjacent Jon Bon Jovi story. Hampton Water Rosé — the w**e brand he built with his son Jesse — is about time as much as it is about w**e. The time it takes to grow the grapes in the Languedoc. The thirty to sixty days it spends aging in French oak barrels. The generations of w**emaking knowledge that Gérard Bertrand brings to every bottle. The unhurried, deliberate, completely intentional approach to making something excellent.

That is also the philosophy of a great watch. Time matters. How you use it matters. The things that are worth waiting for are always worth the wait.

Jon Bon Jovi — who rehabilitated his voice alone in a garage for three and a half years because he was not ready to say goodbye — understands this better than almost anyone. Some things cannot be rushed. The voice. The w**e. The watch. The great ones take as long as they take. And then they are worth everything.

📍 The Forever Tour — Time On His Wrist At Madison Square Garden
When Jon Bon Jovi walked onto the Madison Square Garden stage on July 7, 2026 — for the first of nine sold-out Forever Tour nights — he was wearing what he always wears. The right clothes. The right presence. And almost certainly the right watch. A man who has been performing on stages since 1983 — who has spent over forty years understanding that every detail of a performance matters — does not leave anything to chance. Including what is on his wrist.

The watch of a man who spent three and a half years in a garage waiting to come back. The watch of a man who told his band every day of every rehearsal that they would get there. The watch of a man who said — on the night of the biggest comeback of his career — "I get to stand in the WE of our concerts." Who counts time not in seconds but in songs. Not in years but in nights on a stage with 20,000 people singing Livin' on a Prayer at the top of their lungs.

That is Jon Bon Jovi and his watches. The man who understands that the most valuable things — the songs, the friendships, the family, the voice, the watches — are the ones built to last. Built to keep time through everything. Through the 240-show tours and the burnout and the grunge era and the vocal cord surgery and the three and a half years in a garage and the Madison Square Garden residency in July 2026.

Still ticking. Still keeping time. Still completely, magnificently himself.

Because the best watches — like the best songs — never go out of style.

09/16/2026

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09/16/2026

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09/16/2026

🎸🤘 Bon Jovi — The Forever Tour 2026. The Greatest Comeback In Rock History. Every Date. Every Stage. Every Glorious Night.

Four years since their last concert. Three and a half years of Jon Bon Jovi rehabilitating his voice alone in a garage. One vocal cord surgery. Nine sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden. Three nights at Wembley Stadium. And a band that never — not for a single day — stopped believing their frontman would find his way back. The Forever Tour is not just a concert tour. It is a statement. We are still here. We are still Bon Jovi. And we are not done.

📍 THE ANNOUNCEMENT — OCTOBER 2025
On October 22, 2025 — Bon Jovi announced the Forever Tour to the world. Jon Bon Jovi said in his statement: "There is a lot of joy in this announcement — joy that we can share these nights together with our amazing fans and joy that the band can be together. I've spoken extensively on my gratitude but I will say it again — I'm deeply grateful that the fans and the brotherhood of this band have been patient and allowed me the time needed to get healthy and prepare for touring. I'm ready and excited."

Ready. Excited. At 64 years old. After vocal cord medialization surgery. After three and a half years of rehabilitation. After the hardest chapter of his career. The band's last concert had been held on April 30, 2022, in Nashville — as seen in the 2024 Hulu documentary Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story. Four years between that Nashville show and Madison Square Garden. Four years of waiting. Four years of the band showing up every day to rehearsal. Four years of Jon in his garage. And then — the announcement. The whole world exhaled.

📍 MADISON SQUARE GARDEN — NINE NIGHTS — JULY 2026
The Forever Tour launched at the most famous arena in the world. Madison Square Garden. New York City. Jon Bon Jovi's city. The band's city. The arena where they opened for ZZ Top in 1983 as unknowns from New Jersey — and where they returned in July 2026 as rock legends for nine sold-out consecutive nights.

The complete Madison Square Garden dates — July 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23, and 26. Nine shows. All sold out. Every ticket claimed before anyone had heard a single note of the comeback.

Jon has revealed that taking advice from Metallica's Lars Ulrich — he is drawing on the idea of playing a unique setlist for each show. He told Planet Rock: "I'm having a lot of fun putting together shows that are multiple-night kind of shows." No two nights the same. Fifty songs ready and in rotation. Each audience getting something different. Each night its own complete experience. The setlists at Madison Square Garden have included — Beautiful Drug. You Give Love a Bad Name. Born to Be My Baby. It's My Life. Livin' on a Prayer. Wanted Dead or Alive. Bed of Roses. Always. Bad Medicine. Who Says You Can't Go Home. Raise Your Hands — performed live for the first time since 2019. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead — performed live for the first time since 2022. Red White and Jersey. And more. Different combinations. Different surprises. Different nights. Nine times at Madison Square Garden. Never the same show twice.

Jon Bon Jovi said of returning to the Garden: "I get to stand in the WE of our concerts. I'm not alone up there. I never have been." The WE. Not the I. Still — after everything — the WE.

📍 EDINBURGH — AUGUST 28, 2026 — MURRAYFIELD STADIUM
From Madison Square Garden to Scotland. Bon Jovi brought the Forever Tour to Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on August 28, 2026. The home of Scottish rugby — transformed for one night into a Bon Jovi arena. James Bay — the British singer-songwriter with one of the most emotionally powerful voices in contemporary music — confirmed as support act for the Edinburgh show. Scotland has always loved Bon Jovi. Edinburgh gave them everything they had. And Jon Bon Jovi — looking out over a Scottish stadium — delivered it all back.

📍 DUBLIN — AUGUST 30, 2026 — CROKE PARK
Two days after Edinburgh — Bon Jovi played Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland. One of the most iconic and most beloved stadiums in Europe. The Boomtown Rats — Bob Geldof's legendary Irish band — taking on support duties for the Dublin date. An Irish audience that has been singing Livin' on a Prayer for forty years — and who showed Jon Bon Jovi on August 30, 2026 exactly how it feels when 80,000 Irish people decide to give you everything they have. It felt like everything. It always does.

📍 WEMBLEY STADIUM — THREE NIGHTS — SEPTEMBER 4, 6 & 9, 2026
And then — Wembley. The most famous music venue on earth. The stadium where Bon Jovi played three consecutive sold-out nights in 1995 on the These Days Tour — 80,000 people each night. The stage that has hosted The Rolling Stones and Queen and David Bowie and Michael Jackson and every legend rock and pop has ever produced.

Bon Jovi have confirmed a three-date residency at Wembley Stadium — September 4, September 6, and September 9, 2026. Three nights. All tickets for the accessible sections sold out immediately. James Bay confirmed as support act for all three London dates. Bon Jovi and Wembley Stadium. Three nights. Thirty one years after the 1995 These Days Tour residency that is still talked about by everyone who was there. The circle of a career.

Jon told Planet Rock about the setlist approach for the Wembley nights: nothing is confirmed but the Madison Square Garden shows offer a strong guide. And the promise that no two nights will be the same. That every audience will get something different. That there is still — after forty years — more to give.

All accessible tickets for all three Wembley shows are already sold out. The demand for Jon Bon Jovi back on a Wembley stage has been overwhelming from the moment the dates were announced.

📍 THE COMPLETE FOREVER TOUR — EVERY DATE
July 7 — New York, Madison Square Garden
July 9 — New York, Madison Square Garden
July 12 — New York, Madison Square Garden
July 14 — New York, Madison Square Garden
July 16 — New York, Madison Square Garden
July 19 — New York, Madison Square Garden
July 21 — New York, Madison Square Garden
July 23 — New York, Madison Square Garden
July 26 — New York, Madison Square Garden
August 28 — Edinburgh, Scotland, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
August 30 — Dublin, Ireland, Croke Park
September 4 — London, England, Wembley Stadium
September 6 — London, England, Wembley Stadium
September 9 — London, England, Wembley Stadium

Fourteen shows. Three countries. Two continents. Nine nights at Madison Square Garden. Three nights at Wembley Stadium. The Forever Tour.

📍 THE BAND — WHO IS ON THAT STAGE
Every night of the Forever Tour — the same extraordinary lineup walks onto that stage together. Jon Bon Jovi on lead vocals and rhythm guitar. David Bryan on keyboards — the founding member and Tony Award-winning Broadway composer who has been six feet behind Jon since 1983. Tico Torres on drums — the founding member and visual artist who is still the most powerful and most precise drummer in rock music at 72 years old. Phil X on lead guitar — who made the most impossible position in rock music completely and undeniably his own. Hugh McDonald on bass — who played bass on Runaway in 1983 and is still here. John Shanks on rhythm guitar — the Grammy Award-winning producer who joined as a full touring member in 2024. Everett Bradley on percussion and backing vocals — whose energy fills every corner of every arena. The brotherhood. The WE. Together every night.

📍 THE VOICE — WHAT PEOPLE ARE HEARING
The question that hung over every pre-tour announcement. The question that every journalist asked and every fan feared. Is the voice really back?

The answer — delivered nine times at Madison Square Garden and twice in Edinburgh and Dublin before this article was written — is yes. Completely. Differently than before — wider, deeper, carrying the weight of everything it has been through — but completely, undeniably, magnificently yes. Fan reviews from every Madison Square Garden show have used words like phenomenal, incredible, still the voice, better than expected. Jon Bon Jovi told the crowd at MSG on July 7: "Did you miss us?" The roar that came back said everything.

Jon said it himself before the tour began: "I'm ready and excited." He was right. He always was.

📍 WHAT JON SAID
Jon told the band during the period of his recovery: "The sacrifices that each one of them made to be there for me is on a whole other level. Every day of every rehearsal they were there with me. My love for them has only deepened."

He told the crowd at Madison Square Garden: "I get to stand in the WE of our concerts."

He told Planet Rock about the setlists: "I'm having a lot of fun putting together shows that are multiple-night kind of shows."

He told CBS News about the announcement: "I'm ready and excited."

Ready. Excited. Grateful. Still the most compelling frontman in rock and roll. Still making 20,000 people sing Livin' on a Prayer at the top of their lungs. Still completely, magnificently, permanently Jon Bon Jovi.

Madison Square Garden. Nine nights. Edinburgh. Dublin. Wembley Stadium. Three nights. The Forever Tour 2026.

They said they would be there for you. They always meant it. And in July, August, and September 2026 — they proved it. All over again.

Bon Jovi. Forever.

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