80s rock legend ‘humbled’ after being surprised with tribute on return to old high school

Rock fable Jon Bon Jovi returned triumphantly to his New Jersey precocious school this week. 

The Bon Jovi frontman visited Sayreville War Memorial High School successful Parlin, wherever the school’s performing arts halfway was renamed successful his honor. 

The 62-year-old musician, who has ever proudly celebrated his upbringing successful New Jersey, spent his inferior and elder years astatine the schoolhouse earlier becoming 1 of the biggest rockstars successful the satellite successful the 1980s.

On Tuesday, Bon Jovi visited the recently named Jon Bon Jovi Performing Arts Center, wherever helium was warmly welcomed by students, faculty, and aged friends. 

‘So humbled that Sayreville High named their performing arts halfway yesterday,’ Bon Jovi shared connected Instagram the adjacent day, on with a bid of lawsuit photos. 

He praised the students who created a mural of him, which present decorates the school’s euphony suite, and expressed gratitude to the module who helped signifier the entirety of the lawsuit honoring him.

The rocker posed for pictures with students successful beforehand of the mural. One standout infinitesimal of the sojourn was a reunion with his erstwhile coach, Coach T, whom Bon Jovi immortalized successful his 2000 deed opus Just Older. 

In his Instagram caption, the vocalist reflected connected the reunion, writing: ‘Coach T from our opus Just Older!!! It was large to spot him and the aboriginal of Sayreville … Once a Bomber ever a Bomber.’

Bon Jovi’s sojourn marked his induction into the highschool’s hallway of fame, an juncture helium marked by donating a signaling workplace to the school.  

Sayreville War Memorial High School shared their gratitude for the stone star’s generosity connected societal media, writing: ‘We are truthful grateful for his donations and the students and unit volition retrieve this time forever.’ 

During his speech with students, Bon Jovi siad: ‘You are penning the communicative of your life. You beryllium present contiguous arsenic the aboriginal of Sayreville’s dreamers, participating successful theater, music, voice, and arsenic signaling engineers. 

‘Now, immoderate of you whitethorn take to proceed connected this way aft graduation. Others whitethorn see this a stepping stone. Whatever you take to bash aft you permission here, retrieve that each time is different accidental to marque a memory.’

Bon Jovi’s sojourn to Sayreville War Memorial High School is important not lone due to the fact that it is the spot wherever helium laid the instauration for his euphony vocation but besides wherever helium met his aboriginal wife, Dorothea Hurley. 

The precocious schoolhouse sweethearts waited astir a decennary earlier tying the knot, eloping successful Las Vegas successful 1989 astatine the tallness of Bon Jovi’s fame.

The couple, who person present been joined for implicit 35 years, person 4 children together: Stephanie, 31; Jesse, 29; Romeo, 20; and Jake, 22, who precocious made headlines for his matrimony to Stranger Things prima Millie Bobby Brown.

As the frontman of Bon Jovi, the set has released 16 workplace albums implicit a four-decade-long career, with hits similar You Give Love a Bad Name, It’s My Life, and Blaze of Glory making them 1 of the biggest stone bands of each time. 

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