34 thoughts on “Can You Handle The Jon Bon?”

  1. Ian-O

    Perhaps I cannot handle the Jon Bon, but do I want to?

    I will admit to enjoying a bit of ‘Blaze of Glory’, ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ and so on, but then he went all rock ballad and from then on in, I no longer wanted to handle the Jon Bon.

    To be clear though, I have never, ever attempted to handle the Hoff. As if, pfah.

    NOBODY can handle the Hoff.

    NOBODY.

  2. Starina

    Chompsky, I’m so delighted that this is a re-occuring thing.

    Also I can see where the Manics got their 1991-era poses from. bless.

    1. Ian-O

      I see.

      So what you are saying is that Richie Edwards attempted to handle the Hoff?

      Makes perfect sense now. Most likely the Hoffmeister-Cherenkov radiation blowback threw him into an alternate reality or something.

      After this, the Manics decided to tone it down a bit and handle lesser lights like the Jon Bon.

      Hmmm….

      (I agree though, great to see all these, makes for less grim reading and a bit of laugh thrown in too.)

  3. missred

    Ah now, this isn’t much of a challenge, it’s not like Jon was a guilty pleasure or anything. It was totally normal to fancy him and I am reminded now why. Not many could pull off those teeny Daisy Dukes

  4. Junkface

    This is the silliest thing I’ve seen in a long while. I had no idea he went around looking like this in the 80’s and 90’s. I was not into Bon Jovi, thankfully. They were dog doo

    1. Frilly Keane

      TBF
      Most ov’ us looked like this in the 80s

      Lads of my age are seeing this now
      Are rubbing their shiny heads and laughing at yer manno posing on his leather pants

      That last pic

  5. millie st murderlark

    This is quickly eclipsing my love of the cat pics and things that look vaguely like ireland.

    Maybe even my love for a certain commenter here…

    2. Bertie blenkinsop

      I knew
      You’d love me as long as you wanted
      And then some day
      You’d leave me for somebody new….

      1. millie st murderlark

        I’ll turn to my favourite crazy Bronte to say it better than I could.

        “My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”

        1. bertie blenkinsop

          Either I’ve mentioned on here before that Wuthering Heights is my favourite song… or that’s just plain spooky :)

          1. millie st murderlark

            Ah you might’ve mentioned your love of Kate Bush before…

            I didn’t know Wuthering Heights was your favourite though. How wonderfully serendipitous.

  9. H

    This is making me question the teenage me who thought this guy was so cool on a whole new level – what was I thinking??

  12. SARAH REMMEL

    I am, a really huge, Bon Jovi fan. I think, Jon Bon Jovi, is-so sexy, but he’s a married man. Bon Jovi’s music rules!!!

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