Global Change Concert...

Jon Bon Jovi Joins Lineup Of Biggest Names In Music For Live Global Change Concert

Jon Bon Jovi will perform alongside some of the biggest names in music in a concert to promote global change, headed up by former Vice-President of the United States, Al Gore.

Bon Jovi will join Elton John, Pharrell Williams, Hozier, Neil Young, Fall Out Boy, Vance Joy, Walk the Moon, 30 Seconds to Mars, Ryan Reynolds, Ed Begley Jr., world leaders and more in Al Gore's  24-hour telethon on climate change called "24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The Word is Watching."

The event was scheduled in advance of the upcoming November 30 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris, can be lived streamed at www.24HoursofReality.org on Friday, Nov. 13 and Saturday, Nov. 14, beginning at 12 p.m. EST.

Jon Bon Jovi's performance was taped prior to the event.

Al Gore will host the broadcast from a studio at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, where Duran Duran will perform live.

The event "is about making sure the people of the world are informed and engaged so that they can make their voices heard in their capitals and at the negotiating table in Paris," said Gore in a statement on the site climaterealityproject.org.

"The UN climate talks can be a breakthrough moment to change the dangerous course we've set for our planet. We want the world's leaders to know the world is watching, and its time for them to act," he revealed.

Jon Bon Jovi is a longtime friend of the former Vice-President.

Bon Jovi is a sustained supporter of the Democratic Party. He campaigned for Al Gore in 2000, for John Kerry in 2004 and both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in 2008.

He's given over $35,000 to the Democratic Party since 1994 and in 2008 Bon Jovi hosted a private dinner at his Middletown, New Jersey mansion where he charged $30,800 a plate to be donated to the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Convention, according to NJ.com.

Jon Bon Jovi is currently working on a new album with Bon Jovi to be released in 2016. It will be the first complete band album without longtime guitarist Richie Sambora.

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