LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER – Bon Jovi
#1 – February 14th, 1987
NEWS
• The “Black Monday” stock market fall.
• The Iran-Contra affair was big news.
• Gary Hart playing hanky panky with a hottie named Donna Rice.
• The Rev. Jim Bakker admitted committing adultery with a church secretary Jessica Hann.
• The Iraqis lob a couple of missiles into the USS Stark killing 37 sailors.
• Prozac would hit the market
FADS and ENTERTAINMENT
• MOVIES:“3 Men & a Baby” “Dirty Dancing” “Good Morning Viet Nam” and “Lethal Weapon”
• T.V.: “Married…with Children”, “21 Jump Street”. “The Simpson’s” debuted on the Tracy Ullman Show
• Aretha Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
• Pi is calculated out to 134 million decimal places with no end in sight.
DEAD
• Liberace
• Andy Warhol
• Rita Hayworth
• Fred Astaire
• Jackie Gleason
#1@1
• The third single from their Slippery When Wet album.
• It has become the band's signature song, topping fan-voted lists and re-charting around the world decades after its release.
• Jon Bon Jovi did not like the original recording of this song.
• In 2006, online voters rated "Livin' on a Prayer" #1 on VH1's "list of The 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s".
• The song has been a popular karaoke and wedding band song and covered by countless bands. There's even an oompah version in 3/4 time by UK oompah band “Oompah Brass”.
• They started in Buffalo N.Y. but individual roots tracing back to New Jersey.
• Bon Jovi would hit the top for the second time in just under 5 months, with “Livin’ on a Prayer” your #1 @ 1 from February 1987.
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