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Fact #125402

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Bon Jovi release their seventh studio LP, Crush, on Island Records in the USA.

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REVIEW BY JOHNNY BLACK FROM HI FI NEWS, 2000:
The words epic and, inevitably, anthemic, spring to mind as the BJs chop out the big chords in the chorus of the opening track, It's My Life, during which Jon informs us that his heart 'is like an open highway'. Open book more like. As the widescreen power ballads and mid-paced chuggers roll by, it all seems too easy. It's as if Mr Jovi just popped round the off-the-peg one-stop name-a-song shop and picked up such endlessly re-cyclable titles as the aforementioned 'It's My Life', plus 'Say It Isn't So' and 'Mystery Train', and knocked them into shape while glugging down a few beers at Sanctuary 2 studios over yonder in New Jersey. But there are jewels in this ocean of guaranteed platinum mediocrity - moments so utterly banal and maudlin as to stagger the senses of connoisseurs of the truly tedious. The overblown weepie 'Thank You For Loving Me', for example, is so much like a pale imitation of what Bon Jovi once were that it could well have been written with Stars In Their Eyes in mind. Don't even think about it unless you're a totally smitten devotee.
Johnny Black