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            After 4 decades in music and major vocal surgery,


            Jon Bon Jovi is optimistic and still rocking




            By ALICIA RANCILIO                                                                                                  works. Like an athlete com-
            Associated Press                                                                                                    ing back from an ACL tear
            PASADENA,  Calif.  (AP)  —                                                                                          or  whatever,  it  just  takes
            When Jon Bon Jovi agreed                                                                                            time.  The  therapy  is  still  in-
            to  let  director  Gotham                                                                                           tensive  and  yet  I’m  confi-
            Chopra  follow  him  with  a                                                                                        dent  that  it  gets  progres-
            documentary  camera  to                                                                                             sively better.
            delve into the history of his                                                                                       AP:  We  learn  in  the  docu-
            band,  Bon  Jovi,  he  didn’t                                                                                       series  that  your  father  was
            anticipate  it  would  catch                                                                                        a  barber.  You’ve  always
            him at a major low point in                                                                                         been  known  for  having
            his career.                                                                                                         good hair, especially in the
            The  band  was  launching                                                                                           1980’s.  Does  that  come
            a  tour,  and  despite  doing                                                                                       from your dad?
            all  he  could  do  to  be  vo-                                                                                     BON JOVI: Not in as much
            cally  ready,  the  “Livin’  on                                                                                     where  he  sat  down  and
            a  Prayer”  singer  struggled                                                                                       said,  ‘I’ve  got  this  idea.’
            through songs and couldn’t                                                                                          Really,  I  was  a  byproduct
            hit  the  notes  the  way  he                                                                                       of what was the 80s. Those
            used to.                                                                                                            were  my  baby  pictures.
            Critics  noticed  and  wrote                                                                                        I  love  laughing  at  them.
            about it. A review from Pio-                                                                                        Now, I can jokingly at least
            neer  Press  in  St.  Paul,  Min-                                                                                   say, ‘After 40 years of a ca-
            nesota, said: “It felt like he   In this Oct. 19, 2016 file photo, members of Bon Jovi front row from left, Tico Torres, Jon Bon Jovi,   reer, I still have all my hair.’
            had forgotten how to sing.”  David Bryan, back row from left, Phil X, and Hugh McDonald pose for a portrait in promotion of   That  is  a  good  thing.  Ge-
            In  a  recent  interview  with   their album “This House is Not for Sale” in New York.             Associated Press   netics works in my favor.
            The  Associated  Press,  Bon                                                                                        AP: Do you ever think about
            Jovi said the reaction at the  ing.                       band’s  next  album,  “For-  AP:  The  work  you  put  in  acting again?
            time  was  “heartbreaking.”  “Every day is sort of like do-  ever” hits stores June 7, and  behind-the-scenes  is  like  a  BON  JOVI:  I  do,  on  oc-
            After exhausting holistic op-  ing  curls  with  weights  and  its first single “Legendary” is  quarterback  in  between  casion.  My  day  job  then
            tions, he saw a doctor who  just  getting  them  both  to  out now.                    football games. Are you still  comes  back  to  get  in  the
            said one of his vocal cords  be  the  same  size  and  to  The  four-part,  “Thank  You,  rehearsing at that intensity,  way. In truth, I’ve got a big
            was atrophying.              function together.”          Goodnight:  The  Bon  Jovi  and how are you now?          record  coming  out,  and
            “This  was  unique.  It  wasn’t  This  year  has  been  a  turn-  Story,”  debuts  Friday  on  BON JOVI: I’m doing great.  I’m hoping to go out on the
            a  nodule.  The  strong  (vo-  ing  point.  In  February,  he  Hulu.                   The  record  was  easy  to  road, so I don’t have time
            cal  cord)  was  pushing  the  performed for an audience  In  a  Q&A,  Bon  Jovi  talks  do.  The  process  has  been  for it.
            weak one around, and sud-    for the first time since his sur-  about his voice, his famous  steady. Would I like it to be  And I respect the craft far
            denly,  my  inabilities  were  gery at the MusiCares Per-  hair, the music industry and  a light switch? Yeah. I said  too  much  to  think  I’m  go-
            just exacerbated,” said Bon  son of the Year benefit gala  his work ethic.             to the doctor, ‘I want to flip  ing  to  walk  on  a  set  and
            Jovi.  He  underwent  major  where he was also named  Answers have been edited  the  switch  and  be  done  hit my marks and call that
            surgery  and  is  still  recover-  Person  of  The  Year.  The  for clarity and brevity.  with this.’ It’s just not how it  acting.q


            Yoko Ono to receive Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime

            achievement



            By HILLEL ITALIE             rewarded  eyes,  provoked  and  defended  migrants  ranging  imagination.  En-         terborough,  New  Hamp-
            AP National Writer           thought,  inspired  feminists,  through  works  of  a  wide-  duringly  fresh  and  perti-  shire. Ono’s music manag-
            NEW  YORK  (AP)  —  One  of                                                            nent, her uniquely powerful  er,  David  Newgarden,  will
            the country’s leading artist                                                           oeuvre  speaks  to  our  own  accept  the  award  on  her
            residency  programs,  Mac-                                                             times,  so  sorely  needful  of  behalf.  Ono  first  became
            Dowell,  has  awarded  a                                                               her leitmotif: Peace.”       known as part of the avant-
            lifetime  achievement  prize                                                           Ono’s  son,  Sean  Ono  Len-  garde Fluxus movement of
            to  Yoko  Ono.  The  ground-                                                           non,  said  in  a  statement  the  1960s,  then  reached
            breaking  artist,  filmmaker                                                           that the medal was “an in-   international  fame  after
            and  musician  is  this  year’s                                                        credible honor.”             meeting  John  Lennon,  to
            recipient  of  the  Edward                                                             “The history and list of past  whom  she  was  married
            MacDowell Medal, an hon-                                                               recipients  is  truly  remark-  from 1969 until his death, in
            or  previously  given  to  Ste-                                                        able.  It  makes  me  very  1980.  Their  many  collabo-
            phen  Sondheim  and  Toni                                                              proud to see her art appre-  rations  included  the  songs
            Morrison among others.                                                                 ciated  and  celebrated  in  “Give  Peace  a  Chance,”
            “There  has  never  been                                                               this way,” he said.          “Imagine”  and  “Happy
            anyone  like  her;  there  has                                                         Ono,  91,  has  made  few  Xmas  (War  Is  Over),”  the
            never been work like hers,”                                                            public  appearances  in  re-  basis  for  “War  Is  Over!  In-
            MacDowell  board  chair                                                                cent  years  and  is  not  ex-  spired by the Music of John
            Nell Painter said in a state-  Yoko  Ono  appears  before  the  dedication  ceremony  for  her   pected  to  attend  the  July  & Yoko,” this year’s winner
            ment Sunday. “Over some      permanent art installation, a sculpture called SKYLANDING, at   awards  ceremony,  at  the  of  the  Oscar  for  best  ani-
            seven  decades,  she  has    Jackson Park, Oct. 17, 2016, in Chicago.   Associated Press   MacDowell  campus  in  Pe-  mated short film.q
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