Tiggerbeast |
05-11-2011 03:33 AM |
In 1998 Jon Bon Jovi had intended to record a third solo album.His which he said was to be titled "Introspection". It wasn't going to be a big rock album or a brit pop inspired piece like Destination Anywhere, but would be a more intimate record. The idea was to let Richie finish touring and promoting his own solo album, Undiscovered Soul and in the meantime record Jon would record his Introspection album.
Also that year, Jon was approached by the producers the 1998 box office popcorn movie Armageddon who requested he submit a song for the soundtrack. Jon submitted a big power ballad called 'Save The World' (yes, that very song) but it was rejected because they already had a big ballad from Aerosmith called 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing'. Jon teamed up with canadian guitarist, singer songwriter, Aldo Nova and wrote and recorded Mister Big Time instead.
Later in 1998/early 1999 the record company wanted Bon Jovi to regroup and record a new album.
Sex Sells was the working title of a album Bon Jovi were working on with the late Bruce Fairbairn but it didn't go much beyond demos (many of which appeared in 100,000,000 Fans Can't Be Wrong. A title track was written but not properly recorded as the band didn't feel it worked. Artwork was designed for the album and it appears on the Bonjovi.com website listed as "Coming soon ... Bon Jovi - Sex Sells".
'Real Life' was going to be a the lead single and was recorded for inclusion on the soundtrack, 'EdTV'. The band had decided that they would resume production after David Bryan had recovered from the very nasty injury involving his finger. He had an accident with a electric meat carving tool and badly damaged his fingers (I think he may have even cut it off), but fortunately it was reattached by surgeons. Session keyboardist Robbie Buchannon was brought in to play the keyboard parts for Real Life with Jon, Richie, Tico and Hugh McDonald (who makes his one and only CD Single Cover appearance to date.)
Soon after the release of Real Life, producer Bruce Fairbairm, who produced their Slippery When Wet and New Jersey albums, died of a heart attack. Production was further postponed until a new producer was found. Eventually the band reconveened, with a David Bryan and brought in Luke Ebbin. Sex Sells was mostly abandoned - with a few tracks making it to Crush "Just Older" being one of them,
Incidently the version of Real Life that appears in the film, the single and the EDTV soundtrack is signicantly different to the version on 100,000,000 Bon Jovi fans can't be Wrong.
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