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Bon Jovi wrapping up tour in DC

By Will Vitka

WASHINGTON — D.C. area fans of Bon Jovi won’t be livin’ on a prayer now that the rock legend has announced the second leg of his tour. In a Thursday tweet, Bon Jovi asked, “Who’s excited for round two of the This House Is Not For Sale 2018 Tour?”    

The second leg of the tour starts March 14. The District will be where the concert tour wraps up in May. The concert is slated for May 14 at Capital One Arena in downtown D.C. Presale begins Jan. 16 at 10 a.m. for those in the D.C. area. Seats on the Capital One ticket resale site range in price from $115 for nosebleed spots to $7,379 for suites. Of course, if you’re a hardcore fan, you’ll be there … dead or alive. A full list of tour dates is available on Bon Jovi’s website. Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect a new link for the presale tickets.

David Clayton-Thomas, powerhouse lead singer of Blood, Sweat & Tears, dies at 84

By The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — David Clayton-Thomas, the lead singer of Blood, Sweat & Tears, whose husky, high-strung tenor on “Spinning Wheel,” “And When I Die” and other hits helped make the so-called brass rock band among the most popular acts of the late 1960s, has died at age 84. Spokesperson Eric Alper said that Clayton-Thomas died “peacefully” Wednesday at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. Alper did not cite a specific cause. Clayton-Thomas was a onetime street fighter and petty thief from Canada who briefly became a rock superstar, the front man of a nine-member group that sold millions of records and won two Grammys for “Blood, Sweat & Tears,” which beat out the Beatles' “Abbey Road” for best album of 1969. Calling out amid a jazzy parade of horns, keyboards and percussion, Clayton-Thomas’ urgent shout was a signature voice of the era, preaching love on the Motown cover “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” a lasting legacy on Laura Nyro’s “And When I Die” and a cool head on his own “Spinning Wheel.” Meanwhile, Blood, Sweat & Tears helped inspire a wave of horn-led bands, among them Chicago, the Electric Flag and Ten Wheel Drive. “A lot of the guys (in Blood, Sweat & Tears) would play a Broadway show matinee, then go up to Harlem and play Latin music or R&B and funk at night, or come down to the Village and play pure jazz the next night,” Clayton-Thomas told bestclassicbands.com in 2023. “I was just a blues player: give me three chords and I’ve got a song.”
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