![]() ![]() “I started to come into my head for songs. “I started writing as soon as I could play,” Richie says recalling his songwriting roots. Like Jon, Richie felt songwriting was an integral part of his career as a musician. At the time Sambora was a musician and entrepreneur with his own group, Message, and his own label, Dream Disc Records. Jon then hand-picked the musicians for his band – drummer Tico Torres, bassist Alec John Such, keyboardist David Bryan and guitarist Richie Sambora. A song he wrote titled “Runaway” became a part of a local radio compilation album, and became a hit, garnering airplay in Detroit, Denver, Tampa, Minneapolis and New York in addition to the young artist’s native New Jersey. “Right around my eighteenth birthday I realized it was a dead end street and I joined as the singer in another guy’s band that was playing all originals, but nonetheless I was learning a whole new avenue from these people.”īon Jovi put what he learned performing other people’s original material to use and soon began writing and recording demos of his own tunes. “I was in cover bands until I was 18 years old,” Jon recalls settling onto the sofa in his dressing room backstage before a Nashville concert. Both men say they decided early that songwriting would play an important role in their musical careers. ![]()
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