Jon Bon Jovi told The NME: "We told them to film whatever they wanted and, if it was good, we'd use it in the video, and take the ten people who'd shot the best stuff on the road with us in California this year, they could come along with us in the jet and be like a member of the band. The video was groundbreaking at the time for using such a fan-inclusive approach to making a music promo, and captured live shots not often captured by regular video crews.
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(Here's our full Desmond Child interview.)įor the song's music video, Bon Jovi wanted to do a live video but for it to be done differently, so 250 fans were given hand held cameras and film and told to shoot the band in concert the way they saw them. "That was their high." This spectator view of addiction allowed them to write a hit song with the "love is a drug" theme. "Those people were always focused on their careers," said Child.
When we spoke with Desmond in 2012, he said that Bon Jovi was a particularly focused band that for the most part stayed away from drugs and other temptations because their work was so important to them. His next gig was with Bon Jovi, and it was a lasting relationship, which Child putting his touch on the hooks and choruses to some of the band's most memorable songs. In 1979, he teamed up with Paul Stanley and came up with the hit I Was Made For Lovin' You for Kiss, which put him on the radar as a Rock band hitmaker. The trio also penned " You Give Love A Bad Name" and " Livin' On A Prayer." In the '70s, Child was a modestly successful performer with a group called Desmond Child & Rouge. It was the third #1 that Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora wrote with Desmond Child. This song compares a love affair to a drug addiction and contains many tongue-in-cheek medical analogies ("There ain't no paramedic gonna save this heart attack").
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