Van Halen's song " Good Enough " from their 1986 album " 5150 " begins with singer Sammy Hagar calling out " Hello Baby!

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Van Halen is the 19th best-selling band / artist in United States history, with sales of over 56 million albums in the U. S. and over 86 million albums worldwide, ( with the band's former record company, Warner Bros. Records, last certifying Van Halen's albums in 2004.

In addition to Van Halen's many popular songs, the band is known for the drama surrounding the exits of former members.

Following their 2004 concert tour the band was on a hiatus from the public until September 2006, when new bassist Wolfgang Van Halen's place was confirmed and Roth reunion rumors began to re-surface, both events coinciding with the band's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction on March 12, 2007.

The band's chemistry owed much to Eddie Van Halen's technical guitar wizardry and David Lee Roth's flamboyant antics, strong points which later made them rivals.

Their Women and Children First album was released in 1980 and further cemented Van Halen's status.

Recorded at Eddie Van Halen's newly-built 5150 Studios, the album featured keyboards, which had only been used sporadically on previous albums.

His hit single I Can't Drive 55 came from his 1984 album VOA, produced by Ted Templeman who had also produced Hagar's first album Montrose, as well as all of Van Halen's albums up to that point.

This led to conflicts with Hagar and the group's new manager, Ray Danniels ( Ed Leffler's replacement and Alex Van Halen's former brother-in-law ), even though it was former manager Ed Leffler who renewed their contract with Warner Bros. Records and added in the Best Of album option years before.

Many songs were longer and more experimental than Van Halen's earlier work.

More positively, Eddie underwent treatment for cancer and announced his recovery on Van Halen's website in May 2002.

The Van Halen News Desk announced on February 15, 2007, that a Van Halen " Best Of ( 1978 – 1984 )", a single-disc compilation of Van Halen's David Lee Roth era, would be released by April 3.

On March 8, 2007 Eddie announced on Van Halen's website that he was in rehab.

Shanks posted on his Twitter account that he was in the studio with the band and posted a picture of one of Eddie Van Halen's signature amps.

It was Van Halen's first studio release since 1998 and first with David Lee Roth on lead vocals since 1984.

Despite Van Halen's extraordinarily long lay-off between studio albums, " A Different Kind of Truth " sold 188, 000 copies during its first six days of release, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart.

Despite an average ticket price of approximately $ 150, Van Halen's " A Different Kind of Truth Tour " proved to be a commercial success as well, with nearly all U. S. arena shows " either sold-out, or close to it.

R & B legends Kool and the Gang were hand-picked by frontman David Lee Roth to open the first two legs of Van Halen's tour-a decision that seemed baffling at first, but ultimately proved to be successful.

On earlier tours, inadequate compliance by local organizers to the safety requirements of the rider had placed members of Van Halen's road crew in danger which was occasionally life-threatening.

*" Eruption " ( instrumental ), from Van Halen's first album.

* April 11 – Van Halen's lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen marries actress Valerie Bertinelli.

After the lost election, Van Buren dropped Crawford, and instead supported Andrew Jackson to be the next presidential candidate.

The next day, Dillinger, Van Meter and Hamilton were confronted by authorities in Hastings, Minnesota, in a rolling gunfight.

After Kieft left for Serie A club Pisa the next season, Van Basten solidified his position as the team's main attacker.

In their third game, already qualified for the next round, Van Basten selected non-regulars such as Maarten Stekelenburg, Wilfred Bouma and Ibrahim Afellay for the starting lineup against Romania, a match the ' Oranje ' won 2 – 0.

The next year Khleber M. Van Zandt established Tidball, Van Zandt, and Company, which became Fort Worth National Bank in 1884.

Salvador Dalí and Man Ray in Paris, on June 16, 1934 making " wild eyes " for photographer Carl Van VechtenFor the next 20 years in Montparnasse, Man Ray was a distinguished photographer.

Van Vliet spent the next few days overdubbing the vocals.

An old Armenian proverb in the same sense is " Van in this world, paradise in the next.

" This phrase has been slightly modified in Turkish as dünyada Van, ahirette iman or " Van for this world, faith for the next.

Since he loathed this prospect, he hid, spending the next few days drinking at the home of a friend on Van Ness Avenue.

With the universal success of " Good Vibrations ", Capitol Records had no choice but to back Wilson up for his next project, originally called Dumb Angel but soon re-titled SMiLE, which collaborator Van Dyke Parks would describe as a " teenage symphony to God ".

The next known explorer to traverse the county was John Van Meter ( 1683 – 1745 ) in the 1730s.

Over the next four years, settlers flocked to parts of Lima, Springfield, and Van Buren Townships.

After a long chase with studio security and reclaiming Suzanne from a fictional Scream 4 in production, Jay and Silent Bob end up in Jason Biggs and James Van Der Beek's dressing room, where they quickly realize that these are the actors that will play the roles of Bluntman and Chronic, next to Jay and Silent Bob.

Van Gogh lived in the small carriagehouse next to the beautiful pastors house, which is well preserved and visited by art lovers from all over the world.

Over the next few years, the band alternated album releases and touring ( see Van Halen concert tours ).

In the council, he is seated next to another cabinet minister, Freya Van den Bossche, who was elected a municipal councillor as well.

Drugstore Cowboys exploration of the lives of those living on society's outer fringes, as well as its Portland setting, were mirrored in Van Sant's next effort, the similarly acclaimed My Own Private Idaho ( 1991 ).

Van Sant's next project, a 1993 adaptation of Tom Robbins ' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, was an excessive flop, both commercially and critically.

Van Sant, longing to return to more intimate production methods, decided to leave behind big-budget studio filmmaking for his next two features.

It took Gerry over a year to make it to theaters, in which time Van Sant began production on his next film, the controversial Elephant.

Van Duin believed that the dam would breach within the next 10 or 20 years.