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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.
Van Halen's next lead singer was Gary Cherone, frontman of the then-defunct Boston-based band Extreme, a group which had enjoyed some popular success in the early 1990s.
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.

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She won an award for the Van Halen music video of the song " Right Now ", which she produced.
*" Enlightenment " ( Van Morrison song ), 1990
Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.
After the meal, Nancy recruited pianist Van Cliburn to sing a rendition of " Moscow Nights " for the Soviet delegation, to which Mikhail and Raisa broke out into song.
* 1993 – 1994: " Right Now " ( Van Halen song for the Crystal Pepsi advertisement )
* Van Morrison frequently performed the song in his live set.
* " Van Diemen's Land ", also known as " The Gallant Poachers ", is a traditional Irish folk song
* Van Diemen's Land is referenced in the song " The Helm of Ned Kelly " by the group Blackbird Raum on their third album titled " Under the Starling Host "
* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in the Irish and Australian folk song " The Wild Colonial Boy ".
* Van Diemen's Land is often mentioned in the works of Flogging Molly, such as in the song " Every Dog Has Its Day.
* Van Diemen's Land is the subject of the Irish song, " Back Home in Derry ".
* The chorus to the English folk song " Maggie May " says " They've sent you to Van Diemen's cruel shore.
The song includes a reference to Van Diemen's land " subtracting till my fingers dropped ; into Van Diemen's Land ".
* " Van Diemen's island " is mentioned in the song " Highland " by The Elders on their album Pass it on Down
* " Van Diemen's Land " is mentioned in the traditional Irish folk song, ' Black Velvet Band.
* " Van Diemen's island " is the title of a song by Steve Binetti
* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in the song 1788 by Australian band The Go Set
* Van Diemen's Land is a song by Barbara Dickson and is the first track on the album Parcel of Rogues
* The Scottish traditional song " The Braemar Poacher " is about a poacher that was caught and sent to Van Diemen's Land.
* The John Renbourn Group album Live In America ( Flying Fish, 1982 ) includes a song entitled " Van Dieman's Land "
* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in the song " Australia " by comedy folk band Folk On.

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