The Secret Genius Behind Your Favourite Songs

After the first collaboration with KISS, Child continued to write with the shock rock act for a few albums before more people came knocking on his door. One such prospective band was an upstart from New Jersey who were about to flip the glam metal world on its head.

Bon Jovi's collaboration with Child was a marriage made in hard rock heaven, as their collaborations produced such classics as "Livin on a Prayer" and "Wanted Dead or Alive." Instead of having just a typical hard rock song structure, the tunes that were being formed were pop songs dressed up as hard rock. This type of pop formula had a huge impact on the rock scene, with many bands of the late period of hair metal aping this style.

The partnership between Child and Bon Jovi ended up working so well that he stuck around for the band's next outing New Jersey, which produced even bigger hits with "Bad Medicine." While hair metal may be seen as a bit tedious in recent years, Desmond's work with Bon Jovi helped make the genre a household name. By giving this hair metal mainstay a shot in the arm, the hard rock world was wide open for Child to dominate the competition.