A new Bon Jovi anthology book, Bon Jovi: Forever, is set for a June release via Genesis Publications.
The lavish tome was authored by Jon Bon Jovi himself and chronicles the band’s 40-plus-year career. The books are handmade in a limited edition of 1,500 copies — each hand-signed by JBJ — and are packaged with a bevy of extra collectibles.
The 264-page compendium is quarter-bound in black vegan leather and is housed in a black clamshell box. Content-wise, the book features Jon Bon Jovi’s 35,000-word narrative biography alongside interviews and memorabilia, including handwritten lyrics, tour passes and posters, stage costumes, guitars, studio track lists, plus hundreds of photographs from the band’s personal archives and private collections (1,300 images in total).
An excerpt from JBJ in the book reads: “I was single-minded. There was no plan B, even before there was an audience. It was just the feeling that you got singing a song, and then playing in a band. There was something in that electricity, in the sheer sound of loud. There was something about it that captured my imagination.”
As for the extra goodies, the clamshell box includes a chrome-colored 7-inch vinyl record that will present two specially selected recordings (yet to be announced), and exact replicas of the following items held in the Bon Jovi archive: three Bon Jovi pins/badges and two guitar picks in a small cloth bag, a VIP Have a Nice Day tour pass, and Jon Bon Jovi’s personal All Access laminate pass for the 1984 ”Runaway Tour.”
Over four decades into their illustrious career, Bon Jovi look to be going down memory lane as of late. The anthology book follows a Hulu docuseries about the band that was released in 2024 and a reissue of Slippery When Wet that is out February 28th.
You can pre-order Bon Jovi: Forever via Genesis Publications for $325. Check out some spreads from the book below.