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Suzanne L. Beenackers retweeted
🎸 40 years ago today, on the Billboard 200 dated October 25, 1986, Bon Jovi went to No. 1 in America for the first time with Slippery When Wet.
It was make or break time for the band. 7800° Fahrenheit had done only moderately well in 1985, so Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora went back to basics, writing in Sambora's mother's basement in New Jersey and bringing in songwriter Desmond Child, who co-wrote You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin' on a Prayer and Without Love with them. They wrote around 30 songs and played them for New Jersey and New York teenagers to help pick the final tracks. Producer Bruce Fairbairn recorded the album at Little Mountain Sound in Vancouver between January and July 1986, and it was released on August 18.
When the news came through, the band was in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on the road supporting .38 Special. You Give Love a Bad Name hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 a month later, and Livin' on a Prayer followed with four weeks at the top in early 1987.
Slippery When Wet spent eight weeks at No. 1 in total and was Billboard's top selling album of 1987. What is your favorite track on Slippery When Wet?
ALT Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet album cover
Suzanne L. Beenackers retweeted
Celebrating 35 years of Use Your Illusion I & II. Build your own playlist & share link.fans/uyi-35th
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I’d like to thank everyone for their kindness, thoughtfulness and support. It’s greatly appreciated and means a lot.
Whiskey was a big part of my life from the day he was born. He’s a gentle, caring and calming soul. Of course his father Dijon loves and misses him very much as do we all.
Again, my heartfelt thanks to all of you.
Ax-
Suzanne L. Beenackers retweeted
Amsterdam, are you ready? Our reunion is long overdue. Let's make this night legendary!
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Being part of the Bon Jovi fan club in the early ‘90s when they weren’t touring was trippy.
You would get a newsletter that had art like this.
Jovi Angels…
Suzanne L. Beenackers retweeted
a new post: -> rockstarwriternijmegen.com/2…
Or go straight to the video -> youtu.be/qYXDgYu45Y0
“There’s always something we have to do for them. But this is one thing, we have to do for us.”
Living in Sin
youtu.be/qYXDgYu45Y0
| life lessons in Bon Jovi songs
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Suzanne L. Beenackers retweeted
Mind blowing 💙✨
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Jon by Jimi Giannatti
“My photo of a 26 year-old Jon Bon Jovi answering his hotel suite's door after just getting out of bed for our SPIN Magazine cover photoshoot. - St. James Hotel, Hollywood, CA”
#BonJovi #JonBonJovi 🫠
Suzanne L. Beenackers retweeted
David Bowie picked Annie Lennox to perform Under Pressure with him at the '92 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. This rehearsal is AMAZING. Bowie’s expression alone is PRICELESS. What other famous artist can you spot?
Suzanne L. Beenackers retweeted
Het is vandaag 10 januari en het is daarmee precies 10 jaar geleden dat David Bowie ons ontviel. We hoorden het destijds allemaal pas de ochtend daarna. Ik weet nog precies waar ik was toen ik het nieuws al iets voor achten op de radio hoorde. Het voelt als een herinnering aan de dag van gister.
Ik herinner me immers nog zó goed hoe geshockeerd ik was. Ik herinner me mijn ongeloof. Bowie was toch heel 'hot and happening'? Hij was vrijdag immers nog jarig geweest. En hij had op zijn verjaardag toch nog zijn nieuwe album uitgebracht? Het album dat ik toen direct om middernacht trouw had opgezet, het album dat ik later die middag bij de platenzaak had gekocht, het album dat ik het hele weekend door had geluisterd, het album dat in mijn CD-speler zat toen ik die maandagochtend wakker werd met dat nieuws van zijn overlijden. Het album dat..., mijn God, ja, dat album. Dat album en hoe ik dat plots in een ander licht zag. Een album dat Bowie’s afscheidscadeau aan de wereld bleek te zijn. Ik herinner me hoe alle puzzelstukjes langzaam op hun plaats begonnen te vallen. Hoe de dagen daarna beetje bij beetje het besef binnen begon te sijpelen dat Bowie dat album gemaakt moest hebben terwijl hij zo bruut met zijn eigen sterfelijkheid werd geconfronteerd. Dat hij met '★' een kunstwerk had gecreëerd waarin hij zoveel symboliek en verwijzingen naar zijn eigen voorziene dood had verstopt. En het besef dat nu ‘★’ met de wereld was gedeeld de Starman dit aardse bestaan als mens kon verlaten. En dat dus op 10 januari 2016 daadwerkelijk had gedaan.
10 jaar later ben ik er eigenlijk nog steeds een beetje beduusd van. Tien jaar. Het is een lange tijd, maar het lijkt zoveel korter. Misschien komt dat doordat er in de wereld sinds Bowie die verlaten heeft veel, heel veel, is gebeurd. Dingen, zaken, ontwikkelingen die ons besef van het verloop van de tijd hebben beïnvloed en, nu op die periode terugkijkend, kunnen hebben versneld. Waar zijn we in terechtgekomen? Where Are We Now? Deze wereld is niet meer dezelfde. De wereld is een stukje donkerder geworden, en niet alleen omdat het er een is zonder de stoffelijke aanwezigheid van David Robert Jones. Want David Bowie, die is er nog. Zijn kunst is er nog, zijn muziek is er nog, de opnames en beelden van zijn goddelijke stem en zijn unieke verschijning zijn er nog. Zijn levenswerk is er nog. In een wereld die alsmaar zwarter wordt, is het een gódsgeschenk dat er nog zoveel bestaat waarmee we zijn aanwezigheid in ons kunnen voelen en de herinnering aan hem kunnen blijven inkleuren. Bowie de Rainbow Man schijnt nog immer als een ster aan het firmament waar wij naar kunnen opkijken.
I.M. David Bowie (8 januari 1947 - 10 januari 2016) 🕯️
Suzanne L. Beenackers retweeted
We don’t often talk about Madonna’s tattoos, and that in itself says a lot. For decades, never had any and that was intentional. She clearly overcame whatever resistance she had to them as the years went by.
My theory has always been this: Madonna wanted to remain a blank canvas for her artistry. Her body was never decoration, it was a medium. A surface she could reshape endlessly, depending on the era, the idea, the provocation. Tattoos would have fixed something permanent onto something she treated as fluid.
That barrier finally came down at 62.
Her first tattoo appeared in December 2020: “LRDMSE”, inked on the inside of her left wrist. The initials of her six children, in age order: Lourdes, Rocco, David, Mercy, Stella, and Estere. It wasn’t aesthetic first. It was personal first. And that feels important. After that, the door stayed open.
In May 2021, she added a small red “X” on her right wrist, a direct nod to Madame X. Identity as concept, reduced to a single mark.
Later that year, in November 2021, she inked the Hebrew word for “kissed” (וישקהו) beneath her children’s initials. She herself described these tattoos as a trilogy family, art, spirituality completed within the same year.
In 2022, the focus turned inward and backward.
She tattooed “Maman” on her left wrist in a typewriter-style font, with a small outlined heart beneath it. A quiet, devastating tribute to her mother, who died when Madonna was only five.
Around the same period, she added a Kabbalah Tree of Life on her right wrist complex, symbolic, deeply tied to beliefs she’s carried for decades. Not decorative but Philosophical.
What’s fascinating is that none of these tattoos are loud. None are there to shock. They don’t perform for us. They anchor her.
And maybe that’s the point of this entire evolution:
When Madonna finally chose permanence, it wasn’t to brand an era . it was to mark what had already shaped her forever.
Suzanne L. Beenackers retweeted
At this time exactly 5 years ago I was taken to ICU after I nearly drank myself to death. I was there for 3 days. I was utterly broken after 25 years of addiction, depression and anxiety.
Today I help street dogs and have been sober since. My message to you today is that there is always hope. There is always a second chance. You can do this. ❤️
Suzanne L. Beenackers retweeted
Air Date 12/09/1986 #BonJovi 1986 interview (Countdown) youtu.be/5cgHpM0bTpg
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#weekendfun #JonBonJovi 🥰🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Suzanne L. Beenackers retweeted
#Today on December 7 1990, .@Madonna’s "Justify My Love" was released as the first-ever video single, priced at $9.98.
The music video was considered too sexually explicit for MTV and was banned from the network. Madonna responded to the banning: “Why is it that people are willing to go and watch a movie about someone getting blown to bits for no reason at all, and nobody wants to see two girls kissing and two men snuggling?”
The release peaked at number two on Billboard's Top Music Videos for two weeks, and spent 39 weeks on the chart overall.
It has been certified four times platinum by the (@RIAA), for shipments of 200,000 units in the US, and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, becoming the best selling video single of all time.