Jon Bon Jovi was seen in throwback interview with Cat Deeley on Tuesday as he celebrated 40 years of his band during an appearance on This Morning.
The legendary rock singer, 62, joined the ITV programme to reflect on his long career ahead of his upcoming documentary Thank You, Goodnight.
Joining hosts Cat and Ben Shephard, they looked over some old footage featured in the documentary, as Jon said: ‘I’ve had such a privileged life my baby photos are public.’
Showing a clip of him with Cat on CD:UK in 2000, Cat added: ‘There we go, I’m a baby there as well and you’re a baby.’
The presenter kicked started her career as part of a much-loved trio with Ant and Dec on SM:TV Live and also hosted its spin-off pop music show, CD:UK, which she starred on until 2005.
Jon Bon Jovi was seen in throwback interview with Cat Deeley on Tuesday as he celebrated 40 years of his band during an appearance on This Morning
Joining hosts Cat and Ben Shephard, they looked over some old footage featured in the documentary, as Jon said: ‘I’ve had such a privileged life my baby photos are public’
In a still from the episode, baby-face Cat can be seen speaking to Jon, who still has the same hairstyle.
Speaking about the documentary, the musician began: ‘We didn’t want it to be a vanity piece, if we were going to tell this 40-year journey it had to be everybody’s truth.
‘It was emotional, we got together around six months ago to see a rough cut and that was the last time I watched it and it was emotional.
‘There were the highs and the lows – because to have an honest and good career to last forty years there has to be highs and lows and you have to acknowledge both.’
Jon underwent throat surgery in 2022 and is still undergoing vocal therapy to maintain his voice, which he hopes to improve as time goes on.
Adding of his recovery post vocal surgery, he explained: ‘We have a new album out in June and I had no issues singing this, the successful surgery happened, now it’s all part of the rehabilitation.
‘For over 40 years my vocal chords have worked really hard! My hope is to tour again, but if I’m not at one hundred percent then I’m done, it’s that simple.
‘But believe me, I’m very far down the road of recovery at this point. I’m not there yet and the bar is two and a half hours a night, four days a week…. that’s what we do! If we’re gonna play, we play.’
Showing a clip of him with Cat on CD:UK in 2000, Cat added: ‘There we go, I’m a baby there as well and you’re a baby’
The presenter kicked started her career as part of a much-loved trio with Ant and Dec on SM:TV Live and also hosted its spin-off pop music show, CD:UK
Speaking about his documentary, Jon began: ‘We didn’t want it to be a vanity piece, if we were going to tell this 40-year journey it had to be everybody’s truth’
Recently, Jon said he would be ‘good’ with the idea of retiring from singing in a new interview with The Sunday Times.
However, the singer told the outlet that, if he thought his future performances wouldn’t hold up to his standards, he was satisfied with ending his singing days on a high note.
‘This is the first time I’m saying this. If the singing is not great, if I can’t be the guy I once was…then I’m done. And I’m good with that,’ he said.
The Livin’ On A Prayer singer then admitted that he didn’t want to disappoint fans with lackluster performances if his voice never recovered from surgery.
‘I want to perform for two-and-a-half hours a night, four nights a week — and I know how good I can be, so if I can’t be that guy… put it this way, I don’t ever need to be the fat Elvis,’ he stated.
This Morning airs weekdays from 10am on ITV1 & ITVX
