After Roth’s exit, Van Halen had considered several other singers, among them Cold Chisel frontman Jimmy Barnes, future Mr. Big vocalist Eric Martin and even a female singer, Patty Smyth. But Hagar ...

As many still revisit the smash hits produced by Van Halen, we're revisiting some of their most dramatic behind-the-scenes ...

Although Sammy Hagar has had fairly thick skin in rock history, he admitted when he thought time could have been different for him.

There’s people trying to get in the locker room, but we’re like ‘Go, go, go!’ and he’s snorting this big line of cocaine” ...

Why? Sammy Hagar left Van Halen in 1996 Hagar and Eddie Van Halen actually started out as friends. The two men clicked on a level much deeper than David Lee Roth and the guitarist ever did ...

And apparently Simmons hasn’t either. Although Kiss claimed to have brought their 50-year reign to an end in 2023, the glam ...

Every David Lee Roth solo album isn’t better than every ... But every Roth album is more Van Halen-y than his old band’s work with Sammy Hagar. Thankfully, vinyl lovers no longer need to ...

In the other, the band’s former singer David Lee Roth. It was 1986, and there was outright hostility between the two camps ...

Van Halen didn't start writing and recording ballads until Sammy Hagar joined the band following David Lee Roth's departure after the career-changing 1984 album. For better or worse, Hagar's ...