Crush (Bon Jovi album)
After the initial plan to team up with producer Bruce Fairbairn fell through because of his death a year earlier,[9] Bon Jovi and Sambora hired Luke Ebbin[10] to update their sound.Despite the long break, the album was just as successful as their previous releases and helped introduce the band to a new generation of fans.After a five-year hiatus, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora released solo albums.Eventually Bon Jovi asked A&R executive John Kalodner if he knew up-and-coming producers, and he recommended Luke Ebbin.A special unit formed in 1997, to raise funds for schools affected by the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake, with the members of Tokio, V6 and KinKi Kids, called J-Friends, recorded the song in 1999.In a review for AllMusic, Steve Huey expressed the opinion that Crush was a "solidly crafted mainstream rock record that's much better than most might expect."[5] Rolling Stone Magazine gave the album 3 stars out of 5 and described "It's My Life" as "a Britney track shot through the heart with Richie Sambora's voice-box guitar.