Bon Jovi Announces New Album, Releases New Single

Bon Jovi is releasing a new album this June and has shared the album's lead single, "Legendary."

Forever comes out on June 7 and is Bon Jovi's 16th studio album. Jon Bon Jovi told Ultimate Classic Rock that the album's overall theme is "joy," which he had to work towards by facing some "dark misery."

JBJ said, "I’m thinking about where to go musically and I run into a problem physically, where now I have to seek out a specialist in the field to do a vocal surgery that is not often done."

There's certainly a lot of joy on the new single "Legendary." As with many Bon Jovi songs, "Legendary" features a bombastic chorus that you can seemingly already hear fans singing along to at arenas all over the world.

JBJ told Ultimate Classic Rock the mention of a "brown-eyed girl" is a nod to the Van Morrison hit, but it's also a nod to his wife/high school sweetheart, Dorothea.

"Got what I want/Cause I got what I need/Got a fistful of friends/That’ll stand up for me/Right where I am/Is where I wanna be/Friday night comes/Around like a song/Sweet Caroline and we all sing along/Got my brown-eyed girl/And she believes in me/Legendary"

"Legendary" can be heard below and is available for streaming/download here. Meanwhile, Forever is available for pre-save/pre-order here.

The announcement of Forever comes on the heels of the trailer for the new Hulu docuseries Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story.

The four-part docuseries features new interviews with the band. Additionally, Bruce Springsteen sat down for an interview for the docuseries and is featured in the trailer below.

When he first appears, Springsteen says, "There's some young around here from New Jersey who's making some noise." In his second appearance, The Boss says, "Jon's choruses demand to be sung by 20,000 people in an arena."

As with any deep dive into a massive rock band, plenty will be said about wild partying. Jon Bon Jovi says at one point, "Anything that every one of those bands talks about, we did. It was real fun, and I thought everybody else was enjoying it, too."

Cut to former guitarist Richie Sambora with playfully says, "Wrong!"

Thank You, Goodnight will hit Hulu on Friday, April 26.

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A new docuseries about Bon Jovi is set to premiere on Hulu on April 26. The docuseries is titled Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story.

The docuseries also has the cooperation of all Bon Jovi members, both past and present. A teaser trailer of the docuseries offers a supercut of the band's wild career, including the exit of guitarist Richie Sambora.

Additionally, the teaser trailer shows Jon Bon Jovi in a hospital bed. He's holding a dry-erase board that simply says, "I'm good." Meanwhile, an unidentified voiceover says, "Jon's going through his challenges." It then cuts to JBJ saying, "It almost killed us."

The "challenges" appear to be about Bon Jovi's recent vocal issues, which he discussed during the Pollstar Live! conference in February 2024.

Per Ultimate Classic Rock, Bon Jovi said, "It's become public knowledge now, but I've had major reconstructive surgery in my vocal cords, and I never had anything like this, ever. So it's been a difficult road, but I found a doctor in Philadelphia who did something called a medialization, because one of my cords was literally atrophied."

A description of Thank You, Goodnight from Hulu also promises it will delve into the band's "most public moments of friction." Of course, this is likely a reference to the 2013 exit of Sambora, who has often talked about the potential of rejoining the band.