• Philadelphia hard rockers Cinderella got a career kick-start when Jon Bon Jovi saw them perform and recommended them to Bon Jovi's label Mercury Records. Soon they'd released their debut Night Songs and were opening tours for David Lee Roth as well as for Bon Jovi during their mega-hit Slippery When Wet tour.

• 1. Origin: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  2. Years active: 1985-present
  3. Label: Mercury Records
  4. Studio albums: 4
  5. Live albums: 5
  6. Singles: 11
  7. First MTV hit: "Shake Me" (1986)
  8. Biggest hit Billboard single: "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)" (No. 12)
  9. First two albums' producer Andy Johns recorded and mixed some of the biggest hit albums from Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones, and produced Television's Marquee Moon

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