Jon Bon Jovi at Samsung's Four Seasons of Hope at Tavern on the Green - Arrivals, New York City, USA - 22.06.06
Jon Bon Jovi at Samsung's Four Seasons of Hope at Tavern on the Green - Arrivals, New York City, USA - 22.06.06
He says, "My only regret in my career is that I didn't meet him and I had the chance but I was too young, I wasn't ready for it. I blew it.
"I was asked many a night, 'Come and see Frank, come and see Frank...' Now I could sit and talk to Mr S for hours."
But at least the singer's mother got the chance to meet Sinatra - she got backstage at a show and asked the crooner to sign her copy of Rolling Stone magazine, which featured her son on the cover.
He adds, "My mother went backstage and got him to sign it and said, 'This is my son now; he's a big rock 'n' roll star.' He wrote a little note, he was as gracious to her as I imagined he would have been."