A couple of Wolves reviews.

I don't think these have been posted before, but sorry if you've already seen them!

Wolverhampton Bon-derers
By Andy Coleman

Sir Jack Hayward, beware. American rock giants Bon Jovi may try to buy Wolverhampton Wanderers after their gig at the Molineux. The band are in the market for a sports club - although Wolves chairman Sir Jack will be relieved to know they're initially looking at an American football team. Reveals guitarist Richie Sambora: "There's the possibility of buying an Arena Football team. Arena Football is a new concept, it's basically an indoor, more compact version of American Football. "It's very fast and very rough and is really growing in the States. Most of the clubs in the big cities have been snapped up but we hear there's a team available in Philadelphia." With millions of records sold the Bon Jovi members enjoy the luxury of having money to spend on whatever their heart desires. Lead singer Jon Bon Jovi has admitted buying luxury cars, houses and even college educations for his friends but Richie says he's more careful with his spending. "I'm not that extravagant. I have a nice home and an Aston Martin. I just enjoy spending time with my family, going to the beach." Richie is married to actress Heather Locklear, and they have a five-year-old daughter, Ava. They live an hour's drive north of Los Angeles. When not working with Bon Jovi he admits he likes to take a break from rock and roll. "I take a sabbatical from music, that way I remain fresh for when we get back together again. But at some point I'd like to do more solo work, although there's another Bon Jovi album to record first." Also on the drawing board is a box set to mark Bon Jovi's 20th anniversary and a live acoustic greatest hits set recorded and filmed for DVD in Japan. The band has even become involved in selling their wares on a home shopping channel. "That was a limited edition Bounce DVD and video with specially filmed segments. These days, with the increase in downloading from the Internet and piracy, you have to do whatever you can to sell records. When the chance to sell on a home shopping channel comes up you just have to seize the day." With Bon Jovi's loyal British fanbase Richie is particularly looking forward to Tuesday's show. "The American fans are fickle and at one point we fell off the map in our own country but the UK audience stuck with us," he says. "We like playing indoors and outdoors but a stadium in good weather is hard to beat." Bon Jovi Tuesday 24 June 2003 Molineux Stadium Wolverhampton.


By Jovi ... he's got it!
Graham Young, Evening Mail

In recent years they've bypassed the NEC in favour of playing open air shows at Milton Keynes Bowl, Stoke City and now Wolves' splendidly refurbished Molineux ground.
The message to Birmingham from the world's greatest singalong rock band is loud and clear. If you don't want us in your stadia - we don't need you.
This was as fine a gig as I've seen in 20 years and Birmingham's loss was certainly Wolverhampton's gain.
The atmosphere was no doubt helped by the balmy evening weather, but Bon Jovi, 70 shows into their 20th anniversary tour, were at their blistering best.
As twilight fell on the pulsating two-hour show, the stunning lighting effects came into their own, with the split video screens often merging to form the bigger picture.
As the energetic 41-year-old frontman Jon Bon Jovi told his 35,000 air-punching fans: "It's not about fashion, it's about a long-established relationship."
New Jersey's finest delivered more than 20 hits, from 1984's Runaway to cuts like Misunderstood and Undivided from their latest album Bounce.
If Someday I'll Be Saturday Night was the pick of the show, Livin' On A Prayer, It's My Life, Raise Your Hands, Captain Crash and Bad Medicine kept the temperature at boiling point.

Cool review, but the UK tour seems a lifetime ago now

Great review..

So true the tour seemed ages ago. I wish I could go on the road again

find another band to follow around while BJ rest from visiting Europe

Bon Jovi are the only band id go see more than once on a tour.

No other band can make me as crazy as bon jovi does!

Well for me that just about sums it up! Has to be one of the funniest things i've ever read but like he says american fans are fickle!

Out of the question Tom! - we need that time off to save for the next tour or go to the States to see them instead!

Ahem . . . <clears throat> . . . I was one of the handful of American fans that *wasn't* fickle, thank you very much! Don't lump all of us together here!

(And believe me, we've called Jon and Richie on those statements! LOL! Though they do have a point -- where were all these women drooling over Jon on the These Days tour? He was arguably hotter then, but they certainly weren't at the shows in 1995.)

LOL, I know theres a few american fans that have been with them through tick and thin, the majoriety abandoned them.