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Van Halen was an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California in 1972 by the Dutch-born American brothers Eddie Van Halen (guitar) and Alex Van Halen (drums), plus singer David Lee Roth and bassist Michael Anthony. The band's discography consists of 12 studio albums, two live albums, four compilation albums, and 56 singles.
Van Halen's next lead singer was Gary Cherone, former frontman of the Boston-based band Extreme, a group which had enjoyed some popular success in the early 1990s. [60] The result was the album Van Halen III. Many songs were longer and more experimental than Van Halen's earlier work.
Van Halen is the debut studio album by American rock band Van Halen, released on February 10, 1978, by Warner Bros. Records.Widely regarded as one of the greatest debut albums in rock music, [9] [10] [11] the album was a major commercial success, peaking at number 19 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart. [12]
Deal with it. 1984 is the album that pushed Van Halen into another tier of stardom, but the party didn’t last much longer. Egos and creative friction led to Roth’s exit a year later. That blows.
Edward Lodewijk van Halen was born in Amsterdam on January 26, 1955, [5] the son of Jan van Halen and Eugenia (née van Beers).His father was a Dutch jazz pianist, clarinettist, and saxophonist working for the Dutch Air Force, [6] before the war and after returning from Indonesia with local acts like Jos Cleber and Snip en Snap. [7]
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Alex Van Halen revealed the rock band once approached the Black Sabbath musician to front a Van Halen album while its members were between lead singers in 2001.
Alexander Arthur Van Halen (/ v æ n ˈ h eɪ l ə n / van HAY-len, Dutch: [aːlɛkˈsɑndər vɑn ˈɦaːlə(n)]; born May 8, 1953) is a Dutch musician who was the drummer and a co-founder of the rock band Van Halen, which was formed in 1972 by Van Halen and his younger brother Eddie under the name "Mammoth" before adding Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth in 1974 and changing their name to ...
Van Halen, who founded his iconic eponymous rock group with brother Alex in 1972, is widely regarded as one of the most talented guitarists in rock history and was a consistent presence in the ...