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Crow Performs for the First Time after Illness

Fans of Sheryl Crow and music lovers worldwide were shocked to hear about Crow`s cancer illness, but they`ll be happy to learn that Crow played her first live concert on Tuesday since a long long time. Crow has had breast cancer surgery in February and subsequent radiation treatment. Crow preformed only a small number of songs, but hopefully the singer will find new strengths and will return to the stage.

The 44-year-old singer was hired to sing three songs at a sales presentation to advertisers by My Network TV, a new broadcast network launching in September that will use her song A Change Would Do You Good as the theme to one of its series. She played guitar and smiled, but appeared to move gingerly onstage. Showing rustiness, she stopped the song "Soak Up the Sun`` and started again after flubbing the lyrics.

"The words are just coming back to me now," she said. "I knew it last night. I think the radiation went to my brain." Like the lyrics suggest, she seemed to have fun while ending her brief set with All I Wanna Do. "This is the first time I`ve played in ages," she said. "I`m just happy to be here."