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YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME - BON JOVI - 1986

YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME – Bon Jovi

#1 – November 29th, 1986

 

 NEWS

  • The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch killing all 7 astronauts.
  • Microsoft came out with Windows. 
  • Nintendo introduced
  • Haley’s Comet came back. (It is visible from Earth every 75 to 76 years and will next appear in mid-2061.)
  • 1986 was the International Year of Peace.
  • Ferdinand & Emelda Marco flee the Philippines.

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

  • Movies: “Platoon” “Top Gun” & “Aliens”
  • T.V.: “Pee Wee’s Playhouse”  “L.A. Law” and Oprah Winfrey
  • The first PC virus, Brain, starts to spread.
  • Levi’s “Dockers” show up in stores.
  • Hands Across America from NYC to the California coast to help fight hunger & homelessness
  • Celebrities around the globe record “We Are The World”

DEAD

  • Donna Reed
  • Desi Arnaz 
  • Cary Grant

#1@1

  • From the album Slippery When Wet (Sold over 28 million copies worldwide)
  • It was named the top selling album of 1987 by Billboard,and is currently the 21st best-selling studio album of all time.
  • The album went through various name changes during its inception. The album's working titles were “Wanted Dead or Alive” and “Guns N' Roses”; later the band decided to name the album “Slippery When Wet” after visiting strip clubs in Vancouver.
  • His mother is one-time Playboy bunny Carol Sharkey. (Not a centerfold)
  • Bon Jovi and “You Give Love a Bad Name Your” #1 @ 1 from November 1986.


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