
Bon Jovi are set to release a deluxe edition of Slippery When Wet, featuring bonus and unreleased material.
Slippery When Wet was Bon Jovi’s third studio and was released on August 18, 1986 by Mercury Records in North America and Vertigo Records internationally. The album features many of Bon Jovi’s best-known songs, including “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Livin’ on a Prayer,” and “Wanted Dead or Alive.”
Slippery When Wet spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and was named by Billboard as the top-selling album of 1987. The record is Bon Jovi’s best-selling album to date, with a Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certification of 15× Platinum.
The deluxe edition of the album will drop on February 28 and will be available in a variety of formats, featuring some previously unreleased and long-sought material for fans.
The deluxe edition includes a long sought-after acoustic version of “Wanted Dead Or Alive” as well as four live recordings from the band’s historic 1987 Slippery When Wet Tour, two of which, including an epic “Let It Rock,” have not been heard before.
The deluxe edition also boasts exciting, previously unreleased mixes of “Livin’ On A Prayer (Thank You Goodnight Remix),” which was heard briefly in the band’s hit documentary series, and “Raise Your Hands (Extended Obie O’Brien Mix).
The full track listing:
1. Let It Rock
2. You Give Love A Bad Name
3. Livin’ On A Prayer
4. Social Disease
5. Wanted Dead Or Alive
6. Raise Your Hands
7. Without Love
8. I’d Die For You
9. Never Say Goodbye
10. Wild In The Streets
Bonus Traacks:
11. Wanted Dead or Alive (Acoustic Version)
12. Livin’ On A Prayer – Thank You Goodnight Mix
13. Raise Your Hands – Extended Obie O’Brien Mix
14. Wild In The Streets (Live in Cincinnati) Cincinnati Gardens, March 18, 1987 *
15. Livin’ On A Prayer (Live in Detroit) Cobo Arena, March 11, 1987
16. Wanted Dead or Alive (Live in Detroit) Cobo Arena, March 11, 1987
17. Let It Rock (Live In NY) Nassau Coliseum, August 9, 1987
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