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From blue collar Italian-American roots in the USA's East Coast state of New Jersey, Jon Bon Jovi has grown into a bona fide star and household name recognized the word over, with record sales of over 50 million to his credit. As the singer with the matinée idol looks, Jon has risen from a have-guitar-will-travel youngster knocking on a hundred doors to the iconographic frontman with rock band Bon Jovi, who can draw tens of thousands to sell-out stadium shows as if they were the intimate club gigs the group began their career by playing. Bon Jovi, the group the singer hand-picked in 1983, have remained an almost constant force on the music scene, with a career path that has risen to giddy heights as their record and ticket sales have matched, then eclipsed, almost all of their contemporaries. At every turn Jon has been their guiding light and has driven the group with his insatiable ambition, his uncanny ability to know his market and play to his strengths, and his refusal to take the staid, easy route when an opportunity to move up to a more popular level presented itself. Jon Bon Jovi's is a story of guts, determination and, ultimately glory. While all around him musicians have fallen to the demons of booze and drugs, Jon has been smart enough to avoid the traps, the career-crushing controversies and -above all- failure. From each new challenge, Jon has emerged successful. And now, as his band is accepted as one of the highest earning and most popular on earth, he has, with his own deliberate timing, done what many have predicted and begun a parallel career in movie acting. The story of a man who knows what he wants and knows how to get it. The story of a winner.

<Neil Jeffries>