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BJ

Station

Bon Jovi

1983 to today · on Glam metal

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Active years

192019401960198020002020

The journey

1980198519901995Glam metal1986
  1. 1986Glam metal · Slippery When Wet

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Platform

  1. Glam metal1986 to 1991

    Slippery When Wet

    Slippery When Wet (1986) is the commercial peak of glam metal: pop hooks, big choruses and MTV. The line closes in the early 1990s when grunge takes the audience.

    Key album: Slippery When Wet, 1986

    Source: Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski (editors), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, 2001

The line

Glam metal (Rock family)

Sources

  1. Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski (editors), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, 2001
  2. Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra and Stephen Thomas Erlewine (editors), All Music Guide to Rock, Backbeat Books, 2002

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The Metro Map of Music, ‘Bon Jovi: station’, /stations/bon-jovi.