who are Joey, Tommy, and Gina?
 

i'm just wonderin who they are because in Wild In the Streets and Joey they mention Joey, and Tommy and Gina are mentioned in 3 songs. also if anyone knows who Franky from It's My Life is could they plz tell me that too? i wuz thinkin ppl John knew growin up (well Joey from his song Joey) thx in advance laterz

they Joey in Wild in the Streets, and the Joey from 'Joey' are two different Joeys...Frankie from It's my Life is reffering to Frank Sinatra..

"Like Frankie said I did it my way"

Frank Sinatra had a song, called "My way"

and Tommy and Gina are fictional charechters based on 2 people that Jon and Richie knew growing up...

can anyone else confirm these?

yep, confirmed ;). Joey is fiction, too.

basically a rip of of Shooting Star (bad company) right!

The story goes that Jon first saw Richie playing this in a bar somewhere.... they did seem to 'borrow' the concept

I comfirmend :wink:

Shooting Star has a Johnny, not Joey, if that's what you meant.

Ice

ahh ok. thx for clerifying that o_O

They are your mom, dad and your brother....

Just Kidding :D :P

Who aren't tommy, gina and joey??

I think think that the band created them as fictional characters that we can relate to.



:lol: lolz!

no, I mean the idea of doing a song about somebody basically as a uformism for yourself. It doesn't matter whether he's called Joey, Johnny, or even MrX, the concept is the same.

Plus I've seen Bad Company live, I know perfectly well it's Johnny... first lines of the song... 'Johnny was a schoolboy, when he heard his first Beatles song'. And even if I didn't, Bon Jovi have covered it, so I'd know it from there