The video below is not the MTV version as I stuck with the version that is on the single, the album version. ![]() Musically, according to Jon Bon Jovi, the song is inspired by Bob Seger’s song “Turn the Page” and if you listen to the song you hear that the slow driving tempo and groove and seriousness of the song and you can see why it was so inspiring. And Richie’s solo is one of the most memorable he has done and how well it fits in with vibe of the song is magical. Richie Sambora’s guitar playing on this song spectacular and his background vocals mixed with Jon’s vocals takes this song to the next level. There was a western sound with a hard rock edge and when they do play this as full acoustic, it is drenched in that sitting around the campfire feel telling stories of the road (or old west). That whole cowboy vibe is felt in the music using acoustic guitars as well as electric. Instead of horses, the band takes the tour bus (which is sort of a large steel horse) from town to town and raping and pillaging in each town…okay not really, but they were getting all the chicks and making tons of money performing, just not stealing it. Once there they not only would have a wide, sweeping view of the slopes below and all that stirred upon them but there should be many natural fortifications. The song’s title, “Wanted Dead Or Alive”, was inspired by old western movies and Jon thought the lifestyle of a band was similar to that of the outlaws in those movies. The short version cuts off about a minute of the song. The A-Side is also the basic version of “Wanted Dead or Alive”, no single edit or anything like that just the same long version as the album. The B-Side is the album version of “I’d Die For You”. Wanted Dead Or Alive has a BPM/tempo of 150 beats per minute, is in the key of G Maj and has a duration of. The band was on a roll and growing to become one of the world’s biggest rock bands thanks in large part to this song. It is track number 5 in the album Slippery When Wet. ![]() The song was the third single from this album and the third to crack the Billboard Hot 100 reaching #7. There were 5 Singles found and we are going to kick it off with one of Bon Jovi’s most popular and famous songs, “Wanted Dead or Alive” off the band’s 1986 album ‘Slippery When Wet’. I’ve been through a bunch of them so far and now we are tackling the Bon Jovi singles that I found. On my Summer vacation back in June, I found over 20 singles with the picture sleeve.
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