Will the vague rumors turn into a comeback with Richie Sambora?

Ever since Richie Sambora suddenly left, Bon Jovi have been something of an on/off band. Now the guitarist fed the rumor mill with new material. When asked by the Metro daily on the sidelines of the Music Industry Trusts Awards Show in London last week if a reunion with Bon Jovi was likely, he grinned meaningfully: “It’s a possibility. At least we’ve thought about it aloud a few times.”

Metro writes that Sambora responded with a “promising smile on his face.” The reporters had asked after a persistent rumor from fan circles if he would be headlining Glastonbury 2023 with Bon Jovi. Officially, there is no official confirmation from Bon Jovi’s management for performances for the traditional festival in June.

Guitarist Sambora joined Bon Jovi in ​​1983 and has been a songwriter on most of the band’s biggest hits. After almost 30 years, he threw in the towel in 2013 after a Bon Jovi show during the first leg of their Because We Can tour. A shock for the colleagues. Sambora reported in later interviews that he desperately needed a break, in part because of “some pressing family issues.”

It’s not the first time Sambora is giving fans hope that he will return to the band. In 2020 he prophesied: “There would have to be a special situation for my return. But at least I’m not categorically ruling it out. I have no grudges against this band.”

His 2020 comments came just weeks after frontman Jon Bon Jovi said: “Not a day goes by that I don’t wish for Richie to get his life together and get back on board. And yet, in a weird way, we went on and wrote and produced This House Is Not For Sale on our own in 2016. He couldn’t get it together anymore.”

Jon’s harsh judgment of Sambora seemed to make a reunion impossible at the time. Especially since the guitarist didn’t see it that way at all: “I feel fooled when someone says I can’t get my life under control. I’m the happiest guy in the whole neighborhood right now.”

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