Bon Jovi is coming home and the home rocks. Their first major release since 2013’s What About Now is due October 21 via Island/Universal Music Group.
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The title track off “This House is Not for Sale”, released as the first lesson, may reference the split as Bon Jovi takes a house as a metaphor for stability.
Further details on This House Is Not For Sale will be revealed in due course.
It’s part classic Bon Jovi and part a band with a chip of their shoulders, a good combination.
In the video, Jon Bon Jovi takes a nostalgic drive around his old New Jersey neighborhood, passing the homes that once meant something to him with “For Sale” signs mounted on the lawns. It features songs the band hadn’t finished for previous album “What About Now” and is their first without Richie Sambora, who left to go solo in 2013.
Speaking of their new material at the time, mainman Jon Bon Jovi said: “I have a lot to write about”.
A video for the song begins with Jon Bon Jovi driving a 1977 Chevrolet Monte Carlo through a rust belt city in Pennsylvania interspersed with a graveyard scene and band performance shots in a weathered estate.
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Pulling double weight as the album’s title track, the new song is an easy rocker with a laidback visual to match: Jon Bon Jovi cruises around a suburban town in an old-school auto, revisiting presumably nostalgic sites like an on-the-market house and an overgrown cemetery.
