7800° Fahrenheit
Occupation
- Vocals and background vocals: Jon Bon Jovi
- Guitar and backing vocals: Richie Sambora
- Drums, percussion: Tico Torres
- Keyboard and backing vocals: David Bryan
- Bass and background vocals Alec John Such
- Bass: Hugh McDonald
- Background Vocals: Phil Hoffer
- Synthesizers: Tom Mandel
- Programming: Jim Salamone
- Engineering: Larry Alexander, Obie O'Brien, Bill Scheniman
7800 ° Fahrenheit (English for: " 7800 Fahrenheit " ) is the second studio album by the American rock band Bon Jovi. It was released in April 1985.
- 3.1 Charts
- 5.1 External links
- 5.2 Notes and references
Background
The album's title comes from the fact that singer Jon Bon Jovi, the melting temperature of stone (English " Rock", so synonymous with the genre Rock Music ) at 7,800 ° Fahrenheit, which corresponds to a temperature of about 4,300 ° Celsius, estimated. Since Fahrenheit is used almost exclusively in the United States is intended to mean as much as American Hot Rock the title. With the song Secret Dreams is on this album, the only one to date Bon Jovi song included was involved in the writing process, among other things drummer Tico Torres. On the cover of the album that to this day commonly used "classic" is introduced band logo.
Title list
Bonus Tracks Special Edition
On 21 May 2010 the album was released in a tonally revised version that also includes the following live recordings that were recorded during 7800 Degrees Fahrenheit Tour:
Reception
The album has sold to date over 2.5 million copies worldwide, but very few copies went before the commercial breakthrough with Slippery When Wet on the counter. At the time of publication, the sales figures were rather low and did not meet the expectations of Bon Jovi, the band played about two decades ago no song of this album more. Only on the The- Circle-Tour in 2009, some songs of the album were taken on the set list again. However, with 7800 ° Fahrenheit put the band's musical foundation for their third album Slippery When Wet, with whom she made the commercial breakthrough.
Charts
The album reached # 37 in the U.S., position 28 in the UK and number 11 in Switzerland.
Video publication
In 1985 with Breakout: Video Singles, a 30-minute VHS, which brought together all music videos incurred up to that of the group on a video.