{"id":304508,"date":"2026-07-24T04:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/304508\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T04:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:58:08","slug":"jon-bon-jovi-abruptly-ends-new-york-city-concert-due-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/304508\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Bon Jovi abruptly ends New York City concert due to illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jon Bon Jovi was forced to cut short Bon Jovi&#8217;s concert in New York City on Thursday night.<br \/>The rocker performed with his band at Madison Square Garden as part of the Bon Jovi Forever Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But after singing his 1986 hit, Livin&#8217; on a Prayer, Jon announced that he wasn&#8217;t feeling well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, I&#8217;m hurt and you&#8217;re not getting the best of me,&#8221; he told the crowd, according to Page Six. &#8220;Don&#8217;t throw away your ticket stubs, I&#8217;m gonna figure something out, OK? Just hold onto it, we&#8217;ll figure out how to reschedule. But I&#8217;m gonna have to cool it for the night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A short time later, a representative for the 64-year-old confirmed that he had been battling a sinus infection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The Bon Jovi concert at Madison Square Garden ended after 90 mins tonight,&#8221; they told the outlet. &#8220;Jon Bon Jovi spoke from stage and told fans he has been battling a sinus infection, which led to the show&#8217;s early ending. As part of the Bon Jovi residency at Madison Square Garden, Jon has said numerous times that it has been a joy to return to live shows for the band.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It&#8217;s unclear whether Jon will return for the eighth and final show of the MSG residency, scheduled for Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Bon Jovi Forever Tour marks the first time the You Give Love a Bad Name hitmakers have gone on the road since the Bon Jovi 2022 Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In February 2024, Jon revealed he had undergone vocal cord surgery two years earlier and had committed to extensive rehabilitation to regain his singing voice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Speaking to People last month, the music superstar declared that he had &#8220;fully recovered&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It was longer than I&#8217;d ever expected, but it had to be right. We never lost faith,&#8221; he reflected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Bon Jovi was forced to cut short Bon Jovi&#8217;s concert in New York City on Thursday night.The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13202,13203,222,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-304508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bon-jovi","tag-jon-bon-jovi","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}