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Bon Jovi - Livin on a Prayer (Live 8 2005)
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I saw them in maybe 1974 at the Agora, in Cleveland. I was visiting the parents over the Christmas break.

Yes, that is Vince Gill.

Wow. Not a big country fan but the name "Vince Gill" is larger than life.

I had NO IDEA he was the singer in Pure Prairie League! Great song.

My wife and I like going to the Opry on a regular basis in Nashville. We saw Darius sign this song. It was great.

This song was played for the first dance after my late husband and I were married. I still tear up every time I listen to it.

The emotional center of gravity of an album that is a one-man confessional. Essentially a son's letter to the father he never had. War took him away and left Roger in a world where his father's death meant less and less. WWII was supposed to insure peace for generations. The promise of eternal peace was a lie.

This is the emotional pinnacle. Sarcasm, rage, ancillary imagery tossed aside. What we're left with is the pure grief and torment that has defined much of his life, so many lives, this particular life: a Royal Air Force tail gunner parachuting to his death after his bomber is hit.