Watch Prince Harry Record a Song With Jon Bon Jovi at Abbey Road Studios
On February 28, Prince Harry and Jon Bon Jovi recreated the cover of the Beatles' iconic Abbey Road album.
The appearance promoted Prince Harry's Invictus Games, an international sports competition event for wounded, injured, and sick members of the armed services.
Bon Jovi, who jokingly called Harry "the artist formerly known as Prince," will release a re-recording of his song "Unbroken" with the Invictus Games Choir.
Prince Harry has a new friend from New Jersey. Musician Jon Bon Jovi visited England this week, joining forces with the royal-turned-private-citizen to promote Harry's Invictus Games. Bon Jovi's trip, first teased in a faux text exchange between the two on the Sussex Royal Instagram, included a studio session and a quintessential London tourist moment: Strutting the infamous "zebra crossing" the Beatles made famous on the cover of their eleventh album, Abbey Road.
They were joined by two members of the Invictus Games Choir (you can't recreate the Abbey Road cover with just two people). Prince Harry founded the Invictus Games following a 2013 trip to the U.S. Warrior Games where, as it says on the Invictus website, he "saw first-hand how the power of sport can help physically, psychologically and socially those suffering from injuries and illness." The international event attracts hundreds of wounded, injured, and sick members of the armed services, who compete in a series of athletic challenges. The 2020 Invictus Games will take place May 9-16 in The Hague, Netherlands.
Prince Harry and Bon Jovi also stepped into the Abbey Road studios to lay down a track with the Invictus Games Choir. The singer will release a re-recorded version of his 2019 song "Unbroken" as a charity single for the games; the original song is a tribute to American veterans with PTSD, and appeared in a documentary on the topic titled To Be of Service.
According to this clip posted to the Sussex Royal account, it looks like a somewhat nervous-seeming Harry on backup (sadly, it ends before we get a taste of his vocals). "Pretend you're singing in your bedroom," Bon Jovi advised him.
SkyNews reports that Bon Jovi and the choir spent all of Thursday rehearsing, and the single is out in March. The "Livin' on a Prayer" rocker shared a few snaps from their days at Abbey Road Studios, too.
"An inspiring and incredible few days at Abbey Road with the Invictus Games Choir...and the artist formerly known as Prince," Bon Jovi wrote. "Thank you."
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