'The joke used to be as a touring band, you're like, 'I just want to stay home and beam it to your house.' Now, I did that. 'I used to always say that I wished I could stay in one place, you know, and have people beam in, but now that I've really done that, I don't know that I like it so much,' he said with a laugh. While Bon Jovi has adjusted to social distancing performances, he certainly is itching for an in-person audience. 'Even though I didnвЂ™t live the life of George Floyd, as a witness to history and for someone who is feeling the grief as all humans should, I couldn't help but write 'American Reckoning,'' he explained. No matter, who you are or where you're from on the planet Earth, we experienced this together,' he said, calling the song 'a daunting task' as every word of it had to be real.Дў020 will also include a track dedicated to the late George Floyd, who was murdered by white police officer, Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. 'When I wrote 'Do What You Can,' I realized what a universal message it could be if I got it right. 'I'm just saying, ultimately, I really went out on a limb. 'In a topical 2020, just shy of the election, everything else is covered on this record. The overturn in life as we knew it prompted the band to return to the studio and take a more socially conscious approach. Recorded in March 2019, the sessions saw the band record their way through Christmas, before the project was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaking with iHeartRadio prior to his set at our 2020 iHeartRadio Music Festival on Saturday (September 19), the rock star recalled the making of the album, which is due out on October 2.

Bon Jovi recorded his new album, Bon Jovi: 2020, in early 2019, so it goes without saying that the superstar needed to pivot the direction of some of the project to reflect the hardships that weвЂ™ve gone through this year.

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