Rock legend Jon Bon Jovi returned triumphantly to his New Jersey high school this week. The Bon Jovi frontman visited Sayreville War Memorial High School in Parlin, where the school’s performing arts center was renamed in his honor. The 62-year-old musician, who has always proudly celebrated his upbringing in New Jersey, spent his junior and senior years at the school before becoming one of the biggest rockstars in the world in the 1980s.
On Tuesday, Bon Jovi visited the newly named Jon Bon Jovi Performing Arts Center, where he was warmly welcomed by students, faculty, and old friends. ‘So humbled that Sayreville High named their performing arts center yesterday,’ Bon Jovi shared on Instagram the next day, along with a series of event photos. He praised the students who created a mural of him, which now decorates the school’s music suite, and expressed gratitude to the faculty who helped organize the entirety of the event honoring him.
The rocker posed for pictures with students in front of the mural. One standout moment of the visit was a reunion with his former coach, Coach T, whom Bon Jovi immortalized in his 2000 hit song Just Older. In his Instagram caption, the singer reflected on the reunion, writing: ‘Coach T from our song Just Older!!! It was great to see him and the future of Sayreville .
.. Once a Bomber always a Bomber.
’ Bon Jovi’s visit marked his induction into the highschool’s hall of fame, an occasion he marked by donating a recording studio to .
