11/25/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/25/2024 15:14
Jon Bon Jovi is taking over SiriusXM's E Street Radio (Ch. 20) as a Guest DJ to share his favorite Bruce Springsteen songs and stories of their friendship.
Jon's Guest DJ session airs on E Street Radio on Monday, November 25, at 6pm ET and is available on demand now on the SiriusXM app.
During the session, Jon recalls his first time seeing The E Street Band perform live.
"The first time that I saw The E Street Band play live was at the Philadelphia Spectrum," Jon says during the special. "They had been playing some theaters, but this was their first arena that I got an opportunity to go to and when they were playing 'Spirit in the Night,' Clarence is blowing that horn and the solo happens, and by the time the solo ends, Bruce is up in the third tier sitting in the seats."
Additionally, Jon tells a story about singing with Bruce at one of his gigs in the late 1970s:
"In 1978, I was playing with the Atlantic City Expressway, which was my very first cover band playing in the bars and a record by Bruce and The E Street Band came out called 'Darkness on the Edge of Town,' and we were performing the song 'Promised Land,' and as I was singing the song, I turned around and as I turned around, sitting at the microphone with me to sing along was in fact, Bruce. Now, for a kid that was still in high school, believe me, that was a Beatles moment."