BON JOVI KIDNAPPED MICHAEL JACKSON'S Monkey BUBBLES

The story of the time Bon Jovi stole Michael Jackson's monkey Bubbles



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In 1987 two of the biggest musical acts in different genre’s would cross paths and almost performed together on stage.
In 1987 Bon Jovi was on tour for their third record, 1986’s Slippery When Wet. The album came out in August of 86 and nearly a year later in September, the band was booked to play seven consecutive nights at the budoken in japan from September 24 to the 30th. The arena held between 15-20K people. Slippery When Wet was a record that catapulted the band into the stratosphere going diamond in the states, selling over 12 million copies. Just for comparison, the band’s previous album sold a million copies During their tour, the bon jovi happened to be staying at the same hotel as , the king of pop Michael Jackson. Jackson was in town to play a three nights at a nearby stadium to over 135,000 fans. Jackson’s party occupied the top floor, while Bon Jovi were staying one floor below.
Bon Jovi had just finished up a tour of Australia where they had to don disguises to get away from screaming fans and the press. Unbeknownst to them at the time, Jackson had to deal with the same issues dating back to his Jackson 5 days.
Bon Jovi’s members would receive a call from Jackson’s manager during the day of September 24th asking if the band wanted to meet the king of pop, which they gladly accepted. Jon Bon Jovi would recall upon entering Jackson’s suite “The room had been ripped to shreds and redecorated,” “They put up mirrors against the wall so [Jackson] could practice his dancing, and a wooden dance floor in there. And they took over a wing of this hotel. Needless to say, spending money was not really an issue.”
Upon entering Jackson’s suite, the king of pop wasn’t there, so the band opted to sit and wait for him to show up. Jackson would finally enter all decked out in his bad tour wardrobe. Jon would recall “When he entered the room, your eyes sort of had to focus again,” ”.
The members made some small talk with Jackson who they tried to convince to come party with them, but he opted to stay in his suite, rest his voice and practice his dancing for the upcoming show. That’s how focused michael jackson was. It’s been insinuated by loudersond that at some point during the conversation the musicians talked abou playing live with each other and jackson supposedly was supposed to join bon jovi on stage at their final song of their last budokan date on September 30th
Jackson had no show that day so the timing seemed perfect. So the day of Bon Jovi’s final show came on the 30th and an hour before show time Bon Jovi’s camp got word that Jackson would not be joining the group on stage. Now this is where there’s two version of events.. There’s two versions of this story that have been told. One is based on the book Michael Jackson, Inc: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire from June 2014).
As the band headed down to continue their party at a nearby venue, they were surprised when Jackson’s chimpanzee bubbles showed up in a limo and reportedly even danced at the party and shared a drink with the members of the band.
Bubbles would be born in 1983 in Texas at an animal research festival that bred primates to do testing on them. It’s not exactly clear how Jackson got the chimpanzee but it’s speculated he paid for him when he was eight months old.
Bon jovi would remember what happened next stating “We proceeded to get very drunk, have a bunch of water fights, knock on doors, typical classic rock star things to do in the eighties,” “And [we] blamed it all on Bubbles.”
Then there’s a slightly different story. This one is based on the 2003 book Star Man: The Right Hand Man of Rock 'n' Roll. The book was written by Bon Jovi's then head of security and rock writer paul elliott. .
Upon learning that jackson wouldn’t be making the september 30th concert the members were a little annoyed, so they concocted a plan to get back at Jackson. There would be an afterparty for the band at the Lexington Q