Jon Bon Jovi reminisces about Michael Jackson's Pet Chimp Bubbles party

Before Bon Jovi went down in memory in their multi-part documentary, Thank you goodnightJon Bon Jovi visited Jimmy Kimmel Live (for the first time!) to reminisce about some highlights from his Rock Hall-worthy career.

During the wide-ranging 15-minute interview, the singer talked about his first guitar — which he sold to a neighborhood kid in 1978 and only got back this year — and getting a local radio DJ to play what became Bon H Jovi's first hit, “Runaway”.

Bon Jovi and Kimmel also talked about the singer's first released recording, an appearance on a Star Wars tribute Christmas album. “I was a player in a recording studio in the fall of 1980 until the fall of 1983,” Bon Jovi said, adding that he was paid $183 to sign the track “R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Bon Jovi discussed hitting the road with his idol and fellow New Jersey rock god Bruce Springsteen, his initial reluctance to record “Livin' on a Prayer” and meeting Michael Jackson in Japan, where Bon Jovi and his companions. she partied with the King of Pop's cigar-chomping chimpanzee Bubbles. “Hang tight,” Bon Jovi said. “We had a party with Bubbles.”

Thanks, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Storythe four-part documentary about the band premieres on Hulu on April 26. The documentary, directed by Gotham Chopra, features interviews with all the original members of the group — including Richie Sambora, who left the band in 2013 — as well as Springsteen and other rock peers.

“Thanks, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story joins the band in February 2022 and follows their journey in real time with his responses and starts as they try to plan their future. As exciting as the story of a once-in-a-lifetime talent is, it's even rarer that a legend like Jon Bon Jovi leaves the world at his most vulnerable moments while still living them,” Hulu said of the documentaries.

“Forty years of personal videos, unreleased early demos, original lyrics and never-before-seen photos documenting the journey from Jersey Shore clubs to the biggest stages on the planet.”