{"id":43474,"date":"2025-08-11T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/my-chemical-romance-cover-the-bon-jovi-classic-livin-on-a-prayer\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:30:04","slug":"my-chemical-romance-cover-the-bon-jovi-classic-livin-on-a-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/my-chemical-romance-cover-the-bon-jovi-classic-livin-on-a-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"My Chemical Romance Cover the Bon Jovi Classic &#8216;Livin&#8217; on a Prayer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAlthough it doesn\u2019t appear to be a contractual obligation, it sometimes seems as if any major act playing New Jersey\u2019s MetLife Stadium has to acknowledge the setting. Both Coldplay and Zach Bryan brought out Bruce Springsteen during recent shows there, and this weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/my-chemical-romance\/\" id=\"auto-tag_my-chemical-romance\" data-tag=\"my-chemical-romance\">My Chemical Romance<\/a> continued the tradition by covering what frontman Gerard Way referred to as \u201cwhat may be the New Jersey state anthem\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bon-jovi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bon-jovi\" data-tag=\"bon-jovi\">Bon Jovi<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLivin\u2019 on a Prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My Chemical Romance - Livin On A Prayer (live)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MvP0h7Cmijc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAt the band\u2019s show Saturday, part of its Long Live the Black Parade Tour, MCR played its entire <em>The Black Parade<\/em> album in its entirety. But to close out the show, the band launched into the Bon Jovi fist-pumper, which, astonishingly, turns 40 next year. Way, who told the crowd it was one of only two karaoke songs he\u2019s sung in his life, may be the first musician to sing the song in Army fatigues. He seemed to trip up a bit on the second verse (\u201cso fuckin\u2019 high,\u201d he said, with a laugh), but the band did a pretty faithful take on the song, from replications of its grunting rhythm to Richie Sambora\u2019s guitar squeal. (Factoid: MCR opened for Bon Jovi at a Jersey venue in 2007.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe show itself was already noteworthy long before the cover version. It marked MCR\u2019s first headlining gig at the 80,000-seat stadium in its home state, and during the concert, the band was presented with a key to the city of Belleville, where three of the band members, including Way and his brother Mikey, were raised. Adding to the surreal moment, Belleville mayor Michael Melham informed the crowd that his city was also home to the Four Seasons and the recently deceased pop singer Connie Francis.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThe dedicated My Chemical Romance fans loved every second of the show, and welcomed their hometown heroes with their wide open arms,\u201d <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> wrote in a review of the show. \u201cEven as My Chemical Romance played out as the rock gods they\u2019ve become on the main stage, their star power was truly underlined during the latter half of the show. From a B stage situated near the center of the stadium, My Chemical Romance commanded their hometown stadium with songs from the rest of their catalog and a raw, effusive energy that was contagious. Gone were the marching band uniforms and outsized production; instead, the band stood as New Jersey-bred rockers taking in the preternatural full-moon that hung above them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Long Live the Black Parade tour, which launched last month in Seattle, wraps up in Atlanta in late September before relaunching in South America early next year. Today, the band announced two surprise shows at London\u2019s Wembley Arena in July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/my-chemical-romance-bon-jovi-livin-on-a-prayer-cover-1235404780\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it doesn\u2019t appear to be a contractual obligation, it sometimes seems as if any major act playing New Jersey\u2019s MetLife Stadium has to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":43475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}