Songoftheday 5/29/15 - It's all the same only the names will change, everyday it seems we're wastin' away...

"Wanted Dead Or Alive" - Bon Jovi
from the album Slippery When Wet (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's SOTD comes from the Jersey-bred hard rock band Bon Jovi, whose third album Slippery When Wet had already scored them a pair of #1 pop hits with "You Give Love A Bad Name" and "Livin' On A Prayer". Their third single from the record took them to the "wild, wild west" with the gritty power-balladry of "Wanted Dead Or Alive". Comparing their life as rock stars to cowboys of old, it inspired a slew of metal acts in the 80s to follow...

"Wanted Dead Or Alive" became the third top-10 pop hit from Slippery... in June of 1987, while climbing to #13 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. Internationally, the single made the top-10 in Ireland and New Zealand, and top-20 in the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.

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Here's the band playing live in Moscow in 1989...

...and again from 2001 in their home state of New Jersey...

In 2006, Chris Daughtry performed the song on American Idol, and it became one of his most popular performances, and made the Hot 100 at #43...

..and lastly, here is Bon Jovi again on the Letterman show in 2010...

Up tomorrow: a New Wave group lose a member and live up to their name.