Fans have long speculated whether the legendary band Bon Jovi would ever reunite — and with past interviews suggesting the frontman is open to it, now might be the time.
Last year, the 63-year-old rocker revealed he’s only spoken to guitarist Richie Sambora twice since his unexpected departure from the group in 2013.
“It was a shock,” Jon Bon Jovi said of Sambora’s sudden exit mid-tour. “Nobody anticipated it, no one saw it coming.”
He recalled one of their last conversations on Easter Sunday, when they discussed their album What About Now. Sambora asked to stay home one more day — Bon Jovi agreed, expecting him back for their next show in Calgary.
However, Sambora called and said he wouldn’t be returning. The guitarist later claimed he left partly because he felt the band had grown “stale” — a claim Bon Jovi strongly disagrees with.
“I didn’t think so, and the collective, we didn’t think so,” he once told Classic Rock. “I personally thought that everything was going incredibly f--king well. And it was never brought up—in the room, in the writing, in the recording, or during the first 20 shows of that tour.”
In that 2024 interview, Bon Jovi admitted the split still hurts and that they’ve barely kept in touch over the past 11 years.
“I’ve talked to him twice,” he said. “He. Quit. The. Band. I swear to Christ there was never a fight, nothing… He wasn’t kicked out, he quit. And he hasn’t made any great overtures about coming back.”
After Sambora’s exit, the band tapped guitarist Phil X to fill in. By 2014, Bon Jovi officially confirmed Sambora would not return.
Still, the door hasn’t fully closed. In 2023, Sambora told PEOPLE a reunion “could definitely happen.”
“It's just a question of when everybody's ready to go do it. It will be a big, massive kind of undertaking,” he said.
The following year, while promoting his album Forever, Bon Jovi echoed that sentiment. “If he wanted to show up and play sometime, he knows the songs. Absolutely no animosity, I can promise you that,” he told Audacy Check In.
So with both sides seemingly open — what’s the hold up? With bands like Oasis reuniting after 15 years and Black Sabbath returning for one final farewell, a Bon Jovi and Sambora reunion would be a perfect addition to the comeback trend.
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