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‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ is a song from Bon Jovi’s 1986 album Slippery When Wet. The song was written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora and was released in 1987 as the album’s third single. The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the third single from the album to reach the Top 10 of the Hot 100. “Slippery When Wet” was the first hard rock album ever to have 3 top 10 hits on it.

The song’s title pays homage to Jon’s admiration for Old West heroes, and how he identifies with them as being hated (wanted dead or alive). Jon Bon Jovi said during a concert in Detroit, Michigan on February 20, 2008 that the song “absolutely positively was influenced by Seger’s ‘Turn the Page.’

The song is featured in the movies “Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man” and “Wild Hogs”; also it is featured as playable content in the video game ‘Rock Band’ and in ‘Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned’. This song is also the theme song for Discovery’s TV show about Alaskan crab fisherman, “Deadliest Catch.”
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  • Cross Road
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  • Slippery When Wet
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  • This Left Feels Right
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  • Bon Jovi Greatest Hits - The Ultimate Collection
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  • retrowens

    What a SUPER crappy version this site just played for me!!! Even I couldn't have done much worse vocally!

    24 days ago

  • Rockinfreddy

    Guter Song,damals.Heute nur noch Schrott für Mädchen...

    March 2012

  • Juli_Spears

    I'm a Cowboy ♥

    March 2012

  • greenvillepa

    WHAT the ???

    March 2012

  • hairmetalfan63

    I hate this version!

    March 2012

  • BennyT11

    'I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all' has got to be one of the greatest lines ever written. And I'm only semi joking about that.

    February 2012

  • visitor-q

    this version sucks major balls

    February 2012

  • starfloka

    wanted

    January 2012

  • pachilein

    im a cowboooooy

    January 2012

  • BabichokLast

    Оригінальна версія набагато краща, а це вони щось перемудрили.

    January 2012

  • DarknessV-sible

    Listening again after about 15 ten years, the song gave me the goosebumps. What an epic piece!

    January 2012

  • tomba93

    This song just ROCKS. It's so epic... from the mystic beginning with the 12-string guitar, to the epic solo and the last fuckin' huge verse... awesome!

    December 2011

  • zoborey

    epic

    November 2011

  • kemp678

    Yesssssssss!

    November 2011

  • ftambs

    perfeição define

    November 2011

  • berricon

    saw jon n ritchie do this acoustic live . amazing. only bon jovi song i dig.

    October 2011

  • RustyChile

    On A Steel Horse I Ride!

    October 2011

  • m4xy

    a classic song

    October 2011

  • wildroses07

    I'M A COWBOY! :D

    September 2011

  • laxus12

    Their best single

    July 2011
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