Jon Bon Jovi / Richie Sambora

Vocalist Jon Bon Jovi and guitarist Richie Sambora provided the hits for Bon Jovi, one of the biggest rock acts to emerge in the 1980s. The band’s biggest album, “Slippery When Wet” (1986), yielded two No. 1 singles in “You Give Love A Bad Name” and “Livin’ On A Prayer,” both written by the pair in collaboration with Desmond Child, and two more hits “Wanted Dead Or Alive” and “Never Say Goodbye” penned by the two. Their Grammy-winning 2005 hit “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” even topped the country charts, thanks to help from Sugarland vocalist Jennifer Nettles.

Key songs in the Bon Jovi/Sambora catalog include “Livin’ On A Prayer,” “It’s My Life,” “You Give Love A Bad Name,” “Wanted Dead Or Alive,” “Bad Medicine,” “I’ll Be There For You” and “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead.”

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