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Bon Jovi caught up with Billboard's Katie Bain at MusiCares Person of the Year 2024.

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00:00 So what does it mean to you that the kind of who's who of the music industry

00:04 are gathering tonight to celebrate your music?

00:07 It's unbelievable. I mean I can't wait to hear all these artists play our songs.

00:11 It's really going to be... we haven't seen it, we haven't heard it, we haven't seen

00:14 any sound checks or anything. So it's going to be pretty fantastic.

00:17 No, it's going to be fun. It's going to be fun. I mean, and you know, these are

00:22 cases you get to hang out with your peers and and kibitz with them because

00:26 you know everybody's always working. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:30 You guys are celebrating 40 years of the band. What's the vision for the future? Is it

00:34 like a Rolling Stones situation where you're just going to keep doing this in

00:37 perpetuity?

00:38 I've said in the words of Bon Jovi, we're halfway there. We got another 40 years

00:42 and then we're going to reconsider.

00:45 So with 40 years there's of course a lot to look back at. I know the documentary

00:49 Thank You, Good Night is coming out in April.

00:51 What can we expect? Are there any bombshells or things that you know your

00:55 diehard fans don't know? I'm sure there'll be something.

00:58 Lots. There's a lot. It was a warts and all.

01:04 I mean, Gautam Chopra did it and he really went into the whole world of

01:09 each one of us and our past members and present members and no future members.

01:14 But it's pretty excellent.

01:16 It's really wild. At the end of the first, it's a four-part, five hours. I remember

01:21 the end of the first one, we all looked and went, "Wow!" I go, "I can't wait to

01:26 see what number two is." And I go, "And I'm in the band. I know what happens."

01:30 It's pretty cool.

01:31 So if it's exciting for you, it's going to be very exciting for everyone else.

01:35 So you guys know John probably better than most people.

01:38 What makes him... We're here because of his philanthropic work.

01:43 Tell us about that side of him and what you've seen.

01:48 I mean, it's something he started in our hometown. And you can see that not only

01:53 a place of... People need community. And he gave that to the community and people

01:58 who needed it. So you go in there and you work a little bit, you meet other people,

02:02 you hang out, you eat. And to me, in any walk of life, you need community.

02:07 And he's given that to a lot of people.

02:10 What about... So what's something about John that would maybe surprise us?

02:16 It might be a little shorter through the years.

02:20 Got it. Got it. Got it.

02:23 And, you know, Grammys are, of course, this weekend. The Best New Artist category is a big one.

02:27 You guys have been doing this for a long time. What advice would you give for these

02:30 artists that are just coming up and are at the start of their careers?

02:33 Just enjoy it, you know. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon.

02:37 You know, once you get that, once you think you've made it, then the hardest

02:41 thing is to keep it. And then you've really got to work. And that's where the work starts.

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