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Old 01-06-2025, 05:18 PM
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Desmond mentioned this a few times that he wasn't happy with how the Bonnie Tyler version did and wanted to take the opportunity and give the melody another chance.

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Sure but were Jon and Richie aware of the fact they were rewriting this song?
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Old 01-06-2025, 06:40 PM
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Sure but were Jon and Richie aware of the fact they were rewriting this song?
How would any of us know that though. It's not like they talked about it interviews that they re-shaped an existing song.
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Old 01-06-2025, 09:11 PM
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It seems they knew though. Just found this:

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"So then my very first day that I met Bon Jovi, I had a title in my back pocket; You Give Love A Bad Name," continues Child. "Then that's when Jon looked up at me [and smiled]… he had a song he had written because called Shot Through The Heart, so he threw that. So I said, 'Ok, shot through the heart and you're to blame, darling you give love a bad name'… so that was our first triple high-five with Richie Sambora.

"Then I said, 'Look I have this song that I wrote for Bonnie Tyler, and I really think the chorus is a hit song,'" adds Child. "The Bonnie Tyler kind of had that same [hums synth part from the Bonnie Tyler song] and it was a little bit like Billie Jean, or Eurythmics [Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This] so I said, 'Richie, play this' [Child hums the guitar riff that would feature on You Give Love A Bad Name] and he said, 'No man that's like Michael Jackson, man – we're a rock band.' I said, 'Play it on the guitar and chug it'."
source: https://www.musicradar.com/news/song...her-hits-songs
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