5 Key Facts About Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet

It was Bon Jovi’s third studio album Released on 18 August 1986 by Mercury Records, Slippery When Wet followed the band’s first two albums.

The album made Bon Jovi global superstars It produced three hit singles: “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Livin’ on a Prayer,” and “Wanted Dead or Alive.”

It spent eight weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 Slippery When Wet was the best-selling album of 1987 in the United States.

The title came from a strip club sign Jon Bon Jovi saw a sign reading “Slippery When Wet” outside a club in Vancouver and decided it fit the album’s sound.

The original cover was too risqué The band scrapped a cover featuring a wet T-shirt contest winner for the now-iconic black garbage bag with graffiti.