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VAN HALEN

VAN HALEN II

If there was one 70s rock band that seemed machine-tooled for the dawning new decade, it was Van Halen. Frontman David Lee Roth knew it back in 1978, with the debut album going platinum. “There are a lot of great old songs we used to do that translate well into the 1980s sound,” he told . “This the eighties,

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