Tonight’s mystery band has a hit song that if you’d like to hear the complete original song you need to get the video game Guitar Hero. Any guess the band or the song??

Amazingly enough the song would almost wind up on the cutting room floor except for a persistent Richie Sambora who convinces Bon Jovi that ‘Liv’in’ on a prayer’ was worth doing. Wikipedia tells of many reincarnations this way: After rejecting the original arrangement they reworked it with a new bass line, different drum fills and the use of a talk box to include it on their upcoming album Slippery When Wet. I am thinking Richie got a big I told you so when the song spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, from February 14 – March 14.  The album version of the song, timed around 4:10, fades out at the end. However, the music video game Guitar Hero World Tour features the song's original studio ending, where the band revisit the intro riff and end with a talk box solo; this version ends at 4:53 The version included on the 2005 DualDisc edition of Slippery When Wet has an extended version of the original ending, with a different talk box solo playing over the riff (possibly taken from an outtake of the song); this version, which fades out at the end like the standard version of the song, ends at 5:06.

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