Through a sea of spandex jumpsuits, bleached hair, smoke machines and
never-ending guitar solos, Van Halen singer Dave Lee Roth became the prototype
hard rock front man of the 1980s. He strutted, he leaped, he pouted and he
shrieked uncontrollably as the band went on to score the huge platinum-selling
albums Van Halen II (1979), Fair Warning (1981), Diver Down (1982) and the US
Number 1 single Jump. Roth left the band in 1985 after the successful solo EP
Crazy From The Heart and hit Number 3 in the US with the single California
Girls, before recruiting legendary guitarist Stevie ...