France Soir
May 30 2000
Translated from French with Internet translator
Naples,
In front of the luxury hotel where is Jon Bon Jovi’s suite young girls from
Naples heavily made up and dressed up like bimbos, wait since hours with hope
for a photograph or an autograph of their idol, singer of rock'n'roll band Bon
Jovi. On the 5th floor, in the suite with view to the sea the good-looking young
man from the New Jersey, who sold 80 mln. albums in the world, with sunglasses
on the nose and a glass of water in the hand, smiles. He visits Naples to
promote CRUSH, hiss new album. Jon Bon Jovi jokes and complains that finds the
city ugly. "Is Capri far from here?" he asks. I hardly have time to
answer because to a few meters from here his crew recalls me carefully that the
interview will last 20 minutes and no minute more.
France
Soir: Is always such hysteria when you came in a country?
JBJ:
Not, generally it is worse (laugha) One day, in Australia, when I left my hotel,
there was a girl who straightforwardly threw herself under the starting car. I
believed for a moment that she had been crushed. Fortunately she was well. I
stopped. I signed her an autograph and embraced her. She was content. It was
cool!!
France
Soir: Cool? Don't all that frighten you?
JBJ:
On the contrary, that amuses me. It is very pleasant to be recognized and
adulated in the whole world, to see thousands of people moving with your
concerts. When I hear singers to declare that it’s the hell, that they cannot
come out any more, I want to say to them: "Change a job, men! "
France
Soir: Which is the secrecy of your success?
JBJ:
To makes great albums and to have a great b… (laughs)!
France
Soir: Your answer confirms what some people say- that Bon Jovi is a group for
the girls?
JBJ:
They are right (laughts) I prefer to see young chicks with large tits on my
concerts then men! It’s more pleasant!
France
Soir: Some people call you the good-looking young man from New Jersey who became
a legend for that. Does that mean that a pop star has to conquer many girls’
hearts?
JBJ:
Of course it’s true, rock'n'roll star was always a very sexual job. The guitar
heroes, even the ugliest, can attract more girls then a good-looking young man
who works in a factory. When you are on stage the public dream up on you, there
is a very sensual relationship with people. They should be allured, you have to
show them that they are the most significant people in the world.
France
Soir: Currently, the techno is the music in vogue. Is rock'n'roll finally gone?
JBJ:
Not. Look at the current groups. The majority of them sing rock'n'roll, blues
and even country. All said for years that rock'n'roll is dead, and yet there are
always The Stones, Bowie. Rock'n'roll has a future. Today there are many
interesting techno groups, but I will not myself play it, I don’t like to
dance.
France
Soir: You took parts in movies even with Gwyneth Paltrow. Do you interest in a
career in movies?
JBJ:
I adore the movies but I know very little about them, I have some friends actors
like Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Woopi Golberg, but I have the impression that
it’s not easy to be accepted when one does not come from this family. To
become an actor possibly would amuse me, but when I heard Bjork to say that the
experiment with Lars von Triers was a catastrophe, I thought. No matter how much
I’ll suffer during a few months if I can receive an award in
Canes… I’ll agree. (laughts)