Jon Bon Jovi MusiCares Person of the Year Gala: Setlist

Jon Bon Jovi was honored over the weekend at the 2024 MusiCares Person of the Year Gala in truly epic fashion.

The Bon Jovi frontman was honored for his years of charitable work in his community by MusiCares, the philanthropic arm of the Recording Academy, which organizes the Grammy Awards. The event was hosted by comedian Jim Gaffigan, who at one point, cosplayed as JBJ in the '80s.

Gaffigan was decked out in a wild wig, a Jack Daniel's shirt and cutoff jean shorts. It's the same outfit worn by the singer in a poster projected onto a large screen on stage.

Gaffigan dryly says, "Jon, be honest: Does it feel like you're looking in a mirror? A little bit? By the way, these are the actual shorts from that poster. I bought them at a MusiCares auction. Five bucks! I had to get them taken in, but it's for charity."

The night was packed with a ton of performances, including from Bon Jovi, who debuted a new song titled "Legendary." Per Billboard, the track is from an upcoming album, and it "sounds like a classic Bon Jovi track."

As for the rest of setlist, a diverse group of artists took to the stage at the Los Angeles Convention Center to perform some of Bon Jovi's biggest hits. The only performer to play a song that wasn't a Bon Jovi song was Bruce Springsteen. The Boss and Bon Jovi performed two tracks together: "Who Says You Can't Go Home" and Springsteen's "The Promised Land."

The full setlist can be viewed below, along with a recap video of the event.

“Legendary” - Bon Jovi
“Who Says You Can’t Go Home” - Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen
“The Promised Land” - Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen
“Blaze of Glory” - Melissa Etheridge and Larkin Poe
“Bad Medicine” - Jelly Roll
“We Weren’t Born to Follow” - Lainey Wilson
“It’s My Life” - Pat Monahan
“Bed of Roses” - Shania Twain
“Wanted Dead or Alive” - Jason Isbell
“Keep the Faith” - Damiano David
“This House is Not for Sale” - Goo Goo Dolls
“I’ll Be There for You” - The War and Treaty
“Have a Nice Day” - Mammoth WVH
“(You Want To) Make a Memory” - Brandy Clark
“Livin’ on a Prayer” - Bon Jovi and guests

Bon Jovi has been active for over four decades, and they aren't showing signs of slowing down.

Their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career has netted them over 130 million albums sold worldwide and legions of fans spanning generations.

Narrowing down their catalog to a select number of songs and ranking them is a daunting task, but here are Bon Jovi's 35 best songs, ranked.

A new docuseries about Bon Jovi is set to premiere on Hulu on April 26. The docuseries is titled Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story.

The docuseries also has the cooperation of all Bon Jovi members, both past and present. A teaser trailer of the docuseries offers a supercut of the band's wild career, including the exit of guitarist Richie Sambora.

Additionally, the teaser trailer shows Jon Bon Jovi in a hospital bed. He's holding a dry-erase board that simply says, "I'm good." Meanwhile, an unidentified voiceover says, "Jon's going through his challenges." It then cuts to JBJ saying, "It almost killed us."

The "challenges" appear to be about Bon Jovi's recent vocal issues, which he discussed during the Pollstar Live! conference in February 2024.

Per Ultimate Classic Rock, Bon Jovi said, "It's become public knowledge now, but I've had major reconstructive surgery in my vocal cords, and I never had anything like this, ever. So it's been a difficult road, but I found a doctor in Philadelphia who did something called a medialization, because one of my cords was literally atrophied."

A description of Thank You, Goodnight from Hulu also promises it will delve into the band's "most public moments of friction." Of course, this is likely a reference to the 2013 exit of Sambora, who has often talked about the potential of rejoining the band.