With a world tour and a greatest hits package, Jon Bon Jovi promises that his band isn’t planning on slowing down.

THERE is no denying that Bon Jovi has had many detractors and critics over the years. Most target the New Jersey-raised band’s emergence during the fanciful glam rock movement in the 1980s, a period in rock history that is not often acclaimed as its finest. Add to that the fact that the band is fronted by a blue-eyed pretty boy and hawking a brand of rock that is best described as being “bubblegum metal”, and you get the gist of why the band has been fighting a “credibility” war since 1983.