August 18, 1986 –
Mercury Records released Bon Jovi’s third studio album, Slippery When Wet on this date.
The album was going to be called Wanted Dead Or Alive (another song on the album) and show the band on the cover dressed as cowboys. After doing the photo shoot with photographer Mark Weiss, the band decided they were taking it too seriously, changed the title to Slippery When Wet, and found a Jersey girl with ample boobs to wear a wet T-shirt for the cover. That shoot was also with Weiss, this time at Bradley Beach in New Jersey. (The cover with the girl was used on Japanese versions of the album.)
It looked like they had a winner, but Bon Jovi’s record label got cold feet, worried that retail chains wouldn’t stock it. They needed a new cover quickly, so Jon Bon Jovi went to Weiss’ studio where they wet down a garbage bag and wrote “Slippery When Wet” on it.
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