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Whatever you say, Bon Jovi is only getting better with age – both he and his jeans band. Luckily, the days when the success of their music depended entirely on the length of strings of Richie Sambora and on the quality of antidandruff shampoo of John himself has gone forever. Now it’s got clear that Bon Jovi is the classicist of American rock and the nearest relative of Bruce Springsteen. In the new album Have A Nice Day they have jumped over their own heads. Whatever is possible may be traced in the album. Anti-Bush message and other issues of the day are strengthened by musical links and allusions to Bob Dylan, whose immortal hits like Chimes Of Freedom and Like A Rolling Stone are cited all over the Bon Jovi’s new hits Bells of Freedom and Who Says You Cant Go Home correspondingly. Closer to the second part of the disk the band has obviously decided to relive a bit of the hair-metallic past. The liveliest ballad Complicated makes you want fit it into the album like Living On A Prayer, and Novocain just causes the storm of emotions by explicit panmixia of Def Leppard, Soundgarden and Guns N’Roses. As for the hit power, Bon Jovi has got it innate – just count how many times you have wished a dice day to others and yourself the other days.