Van Hallen

Van Halen is an American heavy metal/hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California in 1972. They have enjoyed super scale success since the promulgation of their debut medium Van Halen, (1978). As of 2007, Van Halen has sold 80 meg albums worldwide, and have had the most number-one hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. During the 1980s they also had more Billboard Hot 100 hits than any another hard rock or heavy metal band. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Van Halen is the 19th best-sellaing band/artist of all instance with income of over 56 meg albums in the U.S., and is digit of five rock bands that have had two albums sell more than 10 meg copies in the U.S. In 2008 they became digit of the prizewinning paid springy acts in the world, over a decade after performing the same feat in the primeval decennium in regards to their huge payout for headlining the US festival.[citation needed] In 1999, the RIAA certified Van Halen diamond, for decade meg U.S. sales. Van Halen were digit of the forerunners to the glam metal bands of the 1980s.
In constituent to existence recognized for success, the adornment is known for the drama close the exits of past members. The (multiple) exits of both lead singers king Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar were surrounded in controversy and mass press coverage with various different press statements between the past singers and the band. solon recently, Michael Anthony left the adornment for disputable reasons. Following their 2004 concert journeying the adornment was on a gap from the open until Sept 2006, when newborn bassist Wolfgang Van Halen's locate was confirmed and Roth-reunion rumors began to re-surface coinciding with the band's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction on March 12, 2007. After eld of speculation, Van Halen began a journeying with Roth in late 2007 crossways North America. The journeying continued into 2008. An album was proposed to follow. Along with this, a live journeying DVD was announced at their May 13, 2008 concert at the Izod Center that would include recordings from several performances on their current tour. Since the modify of the Reunion Tour, no official news from the adornment were heard about its future.