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With Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Robert Plant, George Harrison and rest of the biggies hitting music stores, it is sure is going to be a rocking week ahead

Jon Bon Jovi makes his presence felt yet again

Have A Nice Day

Bon Jovi/Universal

Bon Jovi will be the first band ever to perform at the Nokia Theatre Times Square, as they release their new Island Records album come September 19. The super rock line up Jon Bon Jovi (vocals), Richie Sambora (guitars), Tico Torres (drums) and David Bryan (keyboards) return with their ninth studio album.

Already, the first single and title track is bagging rave reviews. Says Jon Bon Jovi, "There's obviously a sense of irony when you say it. You can say it one-way and take it another," on the number that is winning hearts much like the red smiley with the smirk on the cover. Any guesses for the anthem of the season? When the world gets in my face... I say have a nice day.

Mighty Rearranger

Robert Plant/EMI

Explosive riffs and compulsive guitar hooks with tender arrangements, marks Robert Plant's new album, much like the ol' Led Zeppelin days. Earlier in 1994,

Plant and Jimmy Page renewed their long-time partnership with the No Quarter Project - a mélange of North African, Egyptian and New Wave folk roots sounds.

For now, Plant's band The Strange Sensation who worked with him on 2002's Grammy nominated Dreamland come together for what is set to be one of this year's most talked about albums. "Robert encourages people's individual styles; it doesn't happen that often nowadays. It wasn't like that in 60's and 70's - people were breaking rules and inventing new forms of music. We are closer to that spirit: of weird and anarchic ways," says guitarist Justin Adams. The result is an inspired collection of songs that are raw and bristling with energy but also rich in texture and detail.

VH1 Legends

Various/EMI

It is a great deal to bring David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Joe Cocker, Phil Collins, Steve Miller Band, America, Syd Barrett, Chicago, George Harrison and rest of them legends and pure unadulterated music back to back on the tube in this 80:20 Hindi-English music television era. And now VH1 puts together some of the biggest names and best of numbers, those that will tug at your heartstrings for the collectors' edition. An album that would let your spirits soar. Did you say Fly like an eagle? Just buy it.

To Sheryl Crow, `Wildflower' was like a rebirth

Wildflower

Sheryl Crow/Universal

"I feel like my last album, C'mon, C'mon, was really about just trying to get a record finished. Wildflower has been like a rebirth for me and my desire to want to make music again," says Crow as she returns with her fifth studio album.

A complete guitar rock album with her trademark southern feel, "we recorded thirty-six songs," she says, enough material for a follow up disc due out next summer, "a straight-up country rock," says the artist.

As for the current one, the single Good is good, a mid tempo rocker explains the gist of the cover, "that in the midst of all the chaos going on in the world, that wildflower growing between the cracks represents the purity within us," sums up Crow.

SYEDA FARIDA

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