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"(You Want To) Make a Memory" - Bon Jovi

Still pumped from last year`s sold-out 'Have a Nice Day' tour, Bon Jovi readies a new studio album, 'Lost Highway,' due in June. Lead single "(You Want To) Make a Memory" is a surprisingly sparse and intimate ballad about two long-ago lovers getting in touch again.

Over a pulsing crescendo of acoustic guitars, piano and strings, Bon Jovi delivers his most soulful vocal in years, sounding relaxed and nostalgic as he offers `80s-soaked lines like "I dug up this old photograph/Look at all the hair we had." It`s a classic Bon Jovi anthem - simple, well-crafted and enormously melodic - with guitarist Richie Sambora singing open-hearted harmonies. Given the recent pop success of old-school rock ballads, "Memory" should soar and thrive.

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