Bon Jovi endeared himself even further to his student audience when he invited the whole lot of them - about 500 people - to come along to his concert tonight for free.

They cheered and whistled as he told the audience last night: "Come along as my guests to the Milton Keynes Bowl on Saturday night - all of you."

Afterwards, he commented, "The place holds 60,000 people - we can sneak in another 500."

The superstar politely declined to sing to the Union when asked by one young female student during his 20-minute speech on Friday (June 19), but instead recommended she turned up at Milton Keynes.

But he won't have endeared himself to record companies generally after referring to them in his Oxford Union speech as "criminals."