Still, the highlights showed that the group were becoming stronger composers, and under the right guidance, they would (and subsequently did) produce better material. "It’s a more uneven record than Bon Jovi, with some fantastic tracks ( In And Out Of Love, The Price Of Love, Always Run To You) undermined by some below par cuts ( Only Lonely, Silent Night, King Of The Mountain). But such tracks as The Price of Love and King of the Mountain contain a musical grace unusual in the metallic crowd." ( People (opens in new tab)) Giving the kids what they want seems to involve off-the-decibel-meter guitars and screamed choruses. Bon Jovi says that he wrote the material for this record based on talks he conducted with audiences around the world. "Their second album is a mostly well-executed, always merciless barrage of hard rock. But they seemed much more comfortable with the twittering ballad Silent Night or Price Of Love, where arena-ready riffing met smoke machine keys and vocal trills." ( AllMusic (opens in new tab)) They puffed out their chests for the groupie-groping, Mötley Crüe-style catcalls of In And Out Of Love and made sure King Of The Mountain rumbled with boys-night-out bravado. " 7800° Fahrenheit tempered its black-leather rock & roll with a rudimentary form of the sound that would make Bon Jovi superstars. We’ve put the record behind us, and moved on.”
None of us want to live in that mental state ever again. Lance Quinn wasn’t the man for us, and that added to the feeling that we were going about it badly. "I also reckon we went for the wrong producer. And the strain told on the music we produced. “All of us were going through tough times on a personal level. “Everything about that second album was wrong,” says Jon Bon Jovi. After their self-titled, debut album in 1984 had put them firmly into the trench, everyone took it for granted that 1985’s 7800° Fahrenheit would take the guys over the top, and into the vanguard of platinum-selling bands. ZZ Top headlined, but such was Jovi’s growing appeal they were placed above Metallica on the bill.īut if the UK was slowly falling under the spell of Bon Jovi, the same wasn’t yet true of their home country. They returned the next year to play headline shows, and also to appear third on the bill at the annual Monsters Of Rock festival at Donington Park. They came over in 1984, opening for Kiss, and got a good reception all round. Bon Jovi had built a steady UK following, thanks to copious touring and hard work.
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