"Is This Love" is one of several iconic tracks included on the newest Greatest Hits album and fans hoping to hear the song live will have their last opportunity ahead as Whitesnake are in the midst of a farewell tour. The most recent RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) certification of Whitesnake came in 1995 when the album was certified eight times platinum. This is for Tina Turner.' 'No, it's not.' And it's one of the biggest songs that we have." The standard edition of the album includes fourteen of. And when Geffen heard it, I said, 'No, no, no. Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American rock band Bon Jovi, released on October 29, 2010. Maybe John wouldn't have come up with the chords, but the embellishments were just part of the whole package of the song. These ideas just fed really beautiful things that I wouldn't have come up with. It's for Tina Turner.' Anyway, he gets his coffee, sits down and starts playing these… It was just this organic thing. Speaking about the song's creation, Coverdale recalls that he and guitarist John Sykes had rather opposing work schedules, with the singer keeping to a daytime routine while Sykes preferred to get out of bed in the late afternoon.Īs Coverdale was working on "Is This Love," Sykes heard it and, going back to that moment, Coverdale explains, "And he said, 'Oh, what's that? That's nice.' I said, 'Oh, it's not for us. Their third album, 1986's Slippery When Wet (original, tragically banned cover art awesome), made them megastars, but they had already won over more than 50,000 pop Hessians with 1984's 'Runaway,' a melodramatic story-song made unforgettable by a killer chorus. 'Always', the first of the compilation's two new tracks, spent six months in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, was certified platinum in the US and became Bon Jovi's highest selling single. Eternally topping the A-list of Jersey-bred pop-metal lady-killers, Bon Jovi dominated American life in the mid-'80s. So that was the idea - the original idea for 'Is This Love' was for Tina." The greatest hits album Cross Road (1994) debuted at number one and was the best-selling album in United Kingdom for 1994. And they knew I was going away to do the old correlation of song ideas and said, 'If you come up with anything that you think might be good for Tina' - 'cause they knew I was a huge fan - let us know. The album with 'What's Love Got To Do With It' was huge, global, and they were looking for songs.
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Bon Jovi Greatest Hits 2disc Plus 2 Live Tracks. Greatest Hits: Ultimate Collection (2 x SHM-CD) by Bon Jovi (CD, 2010) 41.44 New. LEGACY/EPIC 80207/SONY MUSIC (18.98) BON JOVI SLIPPERY WHEN WET MERCURY 538089/UME (11.98/6.98). Greatest Hits (Hybrid-SACD) by Bon Jovi (Super Audio CD (SACD), 2021) 36.12 New. My friends and associates at EMI Records were looking for songs to follow up Tina's astonishing story. Q Albums with the greatest sales gains this week. "Slightly, yeah," Coverdale begins (transcription via Blabbermouth), "The original idea was for Tina Turner.