Bon Jovi Poster Giveaway - Signed By The Man Himself!

In honor of the new Showtime documentary, Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful, MamaPop has procured through actions of questionable legality, (KIDDING) THREE When We Were Beautiful posters. And yes, OH YES, they are signed by the man himself, Jon Bon Jovi. And YOU can win one!

All you have to do is hit up the comments and tell us your favorite 80s Music Memory - bonus points if it involves Bon Jovi, and we'll pick three at random to get the posters! Easy! 

After you enter, you can CLICK HERE to see more backstage video, etc, from our totally rad friends at Showtime. 

On a more personal note, can I tell you how awesome this is? You don't understand, I'm from the great and powerful state of New Jersey. Bon Jovi is practically FAMILY. I SHOULD make all y'all write essays about how righteous New Jersey is, but I'll be nice. But seriously, dudes. This contest rocks, you can win a SIGNED poster, and we can all get nostalgic about the 80s, which is always a good time. 

So put on your denim jacket and start backcombing your hair, cause we got some reminiscing to do! 

(contest ends Sunday, October 25th at 11:59 pm, US residents only).

Comments

[SusieO]

My favorite 80s memory would be getting ready to go see Bon Jovi in concert... teasing up my mile high spiral perm and cementing the wings out with aqua net, lining my eyes with cover girl blue frost eyeliner and then black eyeliner INSIDE my eye. Blue mascara and pink frost lipstick. Putting on my blue and black tiger striped spandex jeans and ripped black shirt. Boots with fringe. And my DENIM JACKET loaded with pins like Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Cinderella, Ratt, and sayings like "Bueller? Bueller?" and "Whatsa happenin' hot stuff?"

[Diane Massey]

I have MANY musical memories. My fave Bon Jovi one is on my 30th birthday at Merriweather Post Pavillion in Vienna, VA, I was lucky enough, thanks to my friend Vicky, to attend a press conference where Bon Jovi was donating money to The American Red Cross for flood relief. We were able to stay after the press conference and participate in the meet and greet. I was able to meet the entire band (original bass player Alec John Such was there then) take pictures and chat a little. Can't tell you how nice everyone was and just how awesome it was to meet the guys. A birthday I will never forget that is for sure!!!

[Samantha]

When I was in sixth grade my girlfriend got the Bon Jovi tape New Jersey and we would turn out all the lights in her basement, crank up the boom box as loud as it would go and jump up and down on the bed waving flashlights to simulate a strobe light while singing along at the top of our lungs. Good times.

[Tabatha]

Umm, don't hate me for being young. Like born in the 80's young.

My favorite 80's music memory is from kindergarten -- remember those miniature tape walkman thingies, and you could buy mini-tapes with like four real songs on them to use with the mini player thing? Yeah, my "boyfriend" had one, and we used to always switch the tape on each other -- I'd play the Bangles and he'd play the Fat Boys.

I was in kindergarten in 1989, for the record.

I'm really entering this for my mom, who loves Bon Jovi ... she was 20 when I was born, so I guess this would be like giving her a piece of her youth back? Anyway.

[Suzy Q]

The '80s. Good lord. Livin' on a prayer, indeed.

[Fawn Amber]

Bon Jovi/Extreme in Little Rock was my first concert EVER...I took my younger brother and sister - I was 20, she was 18, he was 13 I guess. My sister and I wore matching body suits, you know, the kind that snap at the crotch, with our acid-washed jeans. It had the shoulders cut out. I was looking mighty fine, I will tell you. Our seats were nosebleed, and my troll brother didn't want to go down to the floor, but we bullied him into it and packed in front of the stage with all the other Aussie-sprayed and gelled masses...Some guy put his hands on my ass during "Never Say Goodbye"...and I let him keep them there for the entire song. Never even got a look at his face....ahh, memories... :)

[Bryan F]

First time I got to touch real live boobs was after I played Wanted Dead or Alive for a girl on the guitar in the late 1980's....Ahh the high school memories.......

[cindy w]

Um, not exactly a good 80's memory, but... When Jon Bon Jovi got married, I might've thrown myself on my bed and sobbed in utter tween despair. And this might be something that my family still mocks me about to this day. Maybe. It could've happened, I'm not confirming or denying.

[PJ]

Well, in the 80s I saw Journey a few times, once at a big concert at the old Comiskey (White Sox) Park in Chicago. Also on the ticket that night were Eddie Money and Santana. I even remember most of the night! (Most of it.) If I win this, I will give it to my cousin for her birthday, she loves JonBon as much as I love Daryl Hall.

[Carrie Hellbusch]

Mine is coming home from school on a cold day and opening the door to great smelling food and my stay at home Dad rocking out to Bon Jovi-where my love for teh band began!

[aew]

This is easy! Somewhere in the second month of dating "the high school boyfriend" we went to go see Bon Jovi in concert. Skid Row opened for them. His mom and little brother attended as well. We "cuddled" in the back of the full size, don't come a knockin', van. We maybe even almost made it to second base.

Within a three month period we also saw Rat & Rod Stewart.

[JennL]

Random 80s Music Memory - Hair fully aquanet-ed with impressive mall bangs, wearing a neon pink V-neck sweater with a veritable rainbow of izod golf shirts layered beneath with skin tight levi's (turned in at the ankle and rolled up)and my very own pristine white roller skates as I spin around the rink, skating backwards and screaming out "Oh, we're halfway there..."

[Kim]

Mine would be a cross-country road trip with my best friend and "Slippery When Wet" on an endless loop in the cassette player.

[Tracy F]

One of my favorite 80's memories dealing with Bon Jovi centers around my job in High School. I worked at a fast food restaurant and in the mornings we would shred the lettuce, slice the onions and tomatoes, and make sure everything was ready for the lunch rush. While preparing the veggies we would sing "I'll do prep for you, These five words I swear to you, When you cry, I'll be the onion in your eye, I'll do prep for you."

[diamondcait]

Spring break, 1989, some random gas station bathroom was selling novelty condoms with album covers on them. One of them was, I kid you not, Slippery When Wet. We had to crank that cassette after that pit stop, I tell you.

[Soukalynn]

The Slippery When Wet poster hung on my dorm room wall for at least two years before it was replaced by New Jersey. Imagine my glee when they came to a small little town in northern Michigan for an outdoor concert. Big hair, denim jacket and a "New Jersey" concert t-shirt was the outfit of the day. Tailgating with a bunch of headbangers in the middle of a field. Screaming, "THESE FIVE WORDS I SWEAR TO YOU" all the way home. Damn that was a good day!

[Lindsey]

I was born in 82. So my first concert involved me drooling over Jordan at a NKOTB (*before they were NKOTB and were actually just The New Kids On The Block.) But my husband (who was born in 71 and totally rocked a curly mullet) actually got in my pants for the first time after singing me I'll Be There For You. If that isn't what Bon Jovi is all about I don't know what is.

[Joan]

New Jersey IS righteous! (Fellow New Jersey native here) Singing-or shouting- along to "Livin' on a Prayer", driving on the GSP. I still like to embarass my kids this way.

[Michelle Draveski]

bon jovi holds a special place for me since he was my first concert ever saw him in the 80s when he opened for billy squire

[dorothy l]

when I think of the 80s music bon jovi is right on top and I have seen him in concert a few times and the show is great.

[Joe K]

My favorite 80s music memory was seeing concerts in the old Palladium in New York City...so many great shows in a beautiful venue.

[Sarah]

I spent my time in the 80s running around my house singing "How Will I Know" by Whitney Houston and scouring the Kids'R'Us checkout line for the perfect headband to give me that side-bow effect without crunching my head and making me cranky. "How Will I Know" and the "Jem" theme song. Side-bow headbands were acceptable for both purposes.

I didn't discover Bon Jovi 'til 1994 or '95, but oh, what a life-alterer. My boyfriend is not cool with a free-five list generally, but I have to have a free-one list, just for Jon Bon.

[Sarah]

I tell my kids about when Bon Jovi came to St. Louis for the "Slippery When Wet" tour and I wanted to go sooooo bad. My mom said no, but I schemed to go anyway, but the tickets sold out in 17 minutes flat and my evil plans were thwarted. I tell them this so they appreciate how good they have it when I take them to see Disturbed.

[avsgirl]

The 80s are mostly a blur but...My mom driving me and a friend 4 hours to see Brian Adams in concert in St. Louis only to stand in the rain for another 3 and then have the concert cancelled! A few months later wanting to got to St. Louis again to see Bon Jovi and my mom said "Absoultely not!" Oh, how I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to go to a Bon Jovi concert with me!

[adrienne Gordon]

My first concert of .38 special and the funny smelling smoke that was in the air, boy i was naive