Hair metal, glam rock, pop metal — whatever you want to call it, the big hooks and big hair that dominated hard rock in the Reagan years reached its apex in 1987. Guns N’ Roses and Def Leppard ...

But nobody ruled the charts like Bon Jovi, whose 1986 album Slippery When Wet spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and topped the year-end chart for 1987, while the single “Livin’ on a ...