I'm a newer fan from the It's My Life single, but I knew of Bon Jovi from way before that. When I was younger, around the Crossroad/These Days Era my friend was a big fan and he always used to play the music. I knew Livin' On A Prayer, Always, Something For The Pain, and one or two others already. I was only about 12 or 13 then though and wasn't into rick music. By the year 2000 I was already listening to Bryan Adams, Dire Straits, Paul Simon, and was progressing to other older rock music. Therefore Bon Jovi were bound to be discovered by me evertually, and I would have become a fan even if it wasn't for the It's My Life single. When I first heard the single I instantly feel in love with it, and remmebered Bon Jovi from the past and knew they'd been going for a long while, so I decided to collect their early stuff, which I've found is better than the newer stuff.