![]() ![]() ![]() Ostensibly a record about the betrayal of Billy the Kid by his onetime friend, the lawman Pat Garrett, Blaze of Glory - which turned 30 this summer - was more autobiographical and cathartic for Bon Jovi than it may suggest. ![]() Originally tapped to simply write the film’s theme song, “Blaze of Glory,” Bon Jovi was inspired by the chance to work outside of the confines of his band, and soon a whole album took shape. He and Sambora even wore cowboy hats onstage.īut nowhere did Jon Bon Jovi embrace his inner gunslinger more than on Blaze of Glory, his 1990 solo debut that doubled as the soundtrack to that year’s box-office shoot-’em-up Young Guns II. He returned to the Wild West theme, with cowriters Richie Sambora and Holly Knight, for a pair of songs (“Ride Cowboy Ride,” “Stick to Your Guns”) on 1988’s New Jersey too. And it cemented singer Jon Bon Jovi as a rock-star cowboy in the process. ![]() Bon Jovi rode their 1987 single “Wanted Dead or Alive” - with its power-ballad metaphor about a wandering outlaw, his steel horse, and a loaded six-string - into Eighties jukebox history. ![]()
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