0_Wizard
Van Halen is my favorite American hard rock band.
Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972.
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Van Halen
Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. From 1974 until 1985, the band consisted of guitarist Eddie Van Halen, vocalist David Lee Roth, drummer Alex Van Halen, and bassist Michael Anthony. The band went on to become major stars, and by the early 1980s they were one of the most successful rock acts of the time. "1984" was their most successful album. The lead single, "Jump", became an international hit and their only single to reach number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The following singles, "Panama" and "I'll Wait", both hit number 13 on the U.S. charts.
Eddie Van Halen
Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (born January 26, 1955) is a Dutch-American musician, songwriter and producer. He is the main songwriter, and founder — with brother Alex Van Halen, singer David Lee Roth, and bassist Michael Anthony — of the American hard rock band Van Halen. He is considered one of the best and most influential guitarists in the history of rock music. In 2011, "Rolling Stone" ranked Van Halen number eight in the list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists. In 2012, he was voted number one in a "Guitar World" magazine reader's poll for "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Born in Nijmegen, Netherlands, Edward Lodewijk van Halen is the son of Dutch father, Jan van Halen, a clarinetist, saxophonist, and pianist, and Indonesian-born Eurasian mother, Eugenia van Halen ( van Beers).
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with keyboards. Hard rock developed into a major form of popular music in the 1970s, with notable bands such as AC/DC, the Who, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, KISS and Van Halen. During the 1980s, some hard rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock, while others began to return to a hard rock sound.
David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth (born October 10, 1954) is an American rock vocalist, musician, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. In 2007, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Roth is best known as the original (1974–1985) and current (2006–present) lead singer of hard rock band Van Halen. He is also known as a successful solo artist, releasing numerous RIAA-certified Gold and Platinum albums. After more than two decades apart, Roth re-joined Van Halen in 2006 for a North American tour that became the highest grossing in the band's history and one of the highest grossing of that year.
Van Halen (album)
Van Halen is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. Released on February 10, 1978, the album peaked at number 19 on the "Billboard" 200. The album became widely recognized as the band's popularity grew, selling more than ten million copies in the United States by August 7, 1996 and being certified Diamond. "Van Halen" contains many of Van Halen's signature songs, including "Runnin' with the Devil", the guitar solo "Eruption", The Kinks cover "You Really Got Me", "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love", "Jamie's Cryin'", and the cover version of John Brim's "Ice Cream Man". In 1976, Van Halen started recording demos for their first studio album.
1984 (Van Halen album)
1984 (stylized as MCMLXXXIV on the album's front cover) is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released on January 9, 1984. "1984" was the last Van Halen album to feature lead singer David Lee Roth until 2012's "A Different Kind of Truth", and the final full-length album with all four original members. Roth left the band in 1985 due to increasing creative differences. This album and their debut are Van Halen's bestselling albums, each having sold more than 10 million copies. "1984" was well received by music critics. "Rolling Stone" ranked the album number 81 on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s.
A Different Kind of Truth
A Different Kind of Truth is the twelfth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. Released on February 7, 2012, by Interscope Records, the record is Van Halen's first full-length album of studio material with former lead singer David Lee Roth since "1984". Likewise, it is Van Halen's first studio album since 1998's "Van Halen III". It is the first to feature Eddie Van Halen's son Wolfgang on bass guitar, replacing Michael Anthony, who had played bass on all of Van Halen's previous albums. "A Different Kind of Truth" was recorded at Henson Recording Studios and Eddie Van Halen's own 5150 Studios and produced by John Shanks.
1_Apprentice
I can't think of who that is. What is their most popular song? Maybe it will help me remember!
0_Wizard
The song "Jump" was an international hit and their only single to reach number 1.
The lead single, "Jump", became an international hit and their only single to reach number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
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Disco
Disco is a musical style originating in the early 1970s. It began to emerge from America's urban nightlife scene, where it had been curtailed to house parties and makeshift discotheques from the middle of the decade onwards, after which, it began making regular mainstream appearances, gaining popularity and increasing airplay on radio. Its popularity was achieved sometime during the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Its initial audiences in the U.S. were club-goers, both male and female, from the African American, Italian American, Latino, and psychedelic communities in Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ross rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group the Supremes, which, during the 1960s, became Motown's most successful act, and are the best charting girl group in US history, as well as one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Ross' success as lead singer of the Supremes helped to make it possible for future African-American R&B and soul acts to find mainstream success. The group released a record-setting twelve number-one hit singles on the US "Billboard" Hot 100, including "Where Did Our Love Go", "Baby Love", "Come See About Me", "Stop!
Utada Hikaru
, who also goes by the mononym Utada (), is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter. She debuted under the stage name "Cubic U" in 1998, releasing the English-language album "Precious", but rose to prominence in 1999 with the release of her second album (and first Japanese-language release), "First Love", which sold over eight million copies in Japan and became the best selling Japanese-language album of all time. She formerly held the record for the highest first-week sales of an album in a single territory, as her "Distance" album sold over 3 million copies in Japan during the week of March 28, 2001.
Paul McCartney and Wings
Paul McCartney and Wings, also known simply as Wings, were an Anglo-American rock band formed in 1971 by former Beatle Paul McCartney with his wife Linda on keyboards, session drummer Denny Seiwell, and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine. Wings were noted for frequent personnel changes as well as commercial success, going through three lead guitarists and four drummers. However, the core trio of the McCartneys and Laine remained intact throughout the group's existence. Created following the McCartneys' 1971 album "Ram", the band's first two albums, "Wild Life" and "Red Rose Speedway" (the latter featuring guitarist Henry McCullough), were viewed as artistic disappointments beside Paul McCartney's work with the Beatles.
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American major record label established in 1958 as the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group (WMG), and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19, 1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros.. For most of its early existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a convoluted series of corporate mergers and acquisitions from the early 1960s to the early 2000s.
Idol (Swedish TV series)
Idol is a Swedish reality-competition talent show which was broadcast on TV4. It first appeared in August 2004, and became one of the most popular shows on Swedish television. Part of the "Idols" franchise, it originated from the reality program "Pop Idol" created by British entertainment executive Simon Fuller, which was first aired in 2001 in the United Kingdom. The program seeks to discover the best singer in Sweden through a series of nationwide auditions. The outcomes of the later stages of the competition are determined by public phone voting. The format features three judges who give critiques of the contestants' performances.
Popular music of Birmingham
Birmingham's culture of popular music first developed in the mid-1950s. By the early 1960s the city's music scene had emerged as one of the largest and most vibrant in the country; a "seething cauldron of musical activity", with over 500 bands constantly exchanging members and performing regularly across a well-developed network of venues and promoters. By 1963 the city's music was also already becoming recognised for what would become its defining characteristic: the refusal of its musicians to conform to any single style or genre. Birmingham's tradition of combining a highly collaborative culture with an open acceptance of individualism and experimentation dates back as far back as the 18th century, and musically this has expressed itself in the wide variety of music produced within the city, often by closely related groups of musicians, from the "rampant eclecticism" of the Brum beat era, to the city's "infamously fragmented" post-punk scene, to the "astonishing range" of distinctive and radical electronic music produced in the city from the 1980s to the early 21st century.
1_Apprentice
Oh okay. It still isn't ringing a bell. speaking of bells, I like ACDC and their song hells bells