After seven years of separation, Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli have jumped forward and completed an amicable divorce.
The Los Angeles Superior Court judgment...
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Eddie Van Halen has officially gone solo. At least in the relationship department.
A Los Angeles judge has signed off on the divorce between the guitar god and TV fixture...
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Eddie Van Halen was hot for a clean-up crew.
While the legendary guitarist was out on a reunion tour with his eponymous band and its original frontman David Lee Roth, a...
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"Are you guys having as
much fun as we are?"
The question posed about 15 minutes into Tuesday's show at
Staples Center was Arena Rock 101. But it was delivered...
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They're in their 50s now, and they've traded their long heavy-metal locks for close-cropped cuts, but the original members of Van Halen are back in business and promise that...
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With a blast of Nirvana's "All Apologies," the 17-month effort to establish a talk station at New York's 92.3 FM ended abruptly Thursday afternoon with the return of K-Rock...
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Eddie Van Halen said on Thursday he
would enter rehab "to work on myself," a move that appears to
rule out a reunion by his troubled band when it is inducted
into the Rock...
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When Ashley Abernathy was 9 years old and suffering from leukemia, her spirits were lifted by a serenade from David Lee Roth.
The former Van Halen frontman recorded a...
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As soon as the music starts, there's something at once odd yet familiar about it. The oh-so-'80s keyboard part has been replaced by a mandolin, and the searing electric...
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The comeback is nearly complete for Opie and Anthony. It was just four years ago when the raucous radio duo became shocked jocks, yanked off the air for their infamous "sex...
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David Lee Roth is ready to jump for Van Halen again.
After he was unceremoniously booted from his morning show
in April, four months after replacing Howard Stern on CBS...
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If pop star Michelle Branch and her pal Jessica Harp had their way, their new country album "Stand Still, Look Pretty" would have registered even higher on the twang...
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For David Lee Roth, morning drive time is turning into a car wreck.
The former Van Halen frontman, barely into his fourth month as replacement for the departed shock jock...
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Reuniting the original Van Halen
lineup is just a matter of time, according to former vocalist
David Lee Roth.
"I talked to the drummer (Alex Van Halen) about a week
ago,"...
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Valerie Bertinelli and her rock star husband, Eddie Van Halen, are divorcing after 24 years of marriage, Bertinelli's publicist confirmed Tuesday.
"Yes, that's true. They...
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It's hard to imagine
Dave Grohl as anything but a frontman.
He calls himself a drummer (and history won't argue the
fact), but before a sold-out Long Beach Arena on the...
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As Howard Stern has
geared up for his January arrival at Sirius Satellite Radio, so
have efforts to woo advertisers to his show.
One published report has Sirius charging...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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"I acted purely on impulse. On hindsight it could have been a lot worse, I could have been like George Harrison. I could have been badly injured, or anything, or shot or...
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Rocker David Lee Roth , the former Van Halen frontman, is taking up a new trade.
Instead of screaming "Jump," he'll be yelling "Clear!"
Roth, 50, has been riding for...
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Viacom Inc., the media conglomerate that owns CBS and MTV, posted a third-quarter loss of $487.6 million Thursday as its earnings were hit by a $1.5 billion charge...
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When it comes to booking concerts, it appears the Baltimore Orioles
haven't finished what they stared.
Van Halen has filed a $2
million federal lawsuit against the...
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Move over, Jessica, Ashlee Simpson 's second to none.
The 19-year-old singer-actress has officially emerged
from her big sister's shadow, as her first album,...
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Apparently, the bad boy of rock 'n' roll is looking to clean up
his act.
Former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth has
announced his intentions to add the unlikely...
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The Van Halen reunion is
looking to be one of the biggest tours of the summer.
It marks the first time in almost a decade that Eddie Van Halen , Alex Van Halen , Michael...
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Eight years after parting ways during a heated feud, vocalist Sammy Hagar and guitarist Eddie Van Halen have called a truce.
The reunited musicians, who spent 11 years...
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When Doug Robb reminisces about the first concert he ever attended, he recalls how it all "seemed bigger than life."
Robb, lead singer for the rock act Hoobastank, was...
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Formerly Weezer member Matt
Sharp is preparing to release his first solo album, a plaintive
country affair in stark contrast to his past work.
The self-titled release is...
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One of pop music's messiest feuds
has come to an end with the return of vocalist Sammy Hagar to
rock band Van Halen after an eight-year absence, the veteran
group said on...
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Frankie Valli is going from singing hits to making hits. He'll star as a mob type on "The Sopranos," beginning with Sunday's episode.
Valli actually read for a part on the...
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There's another "isn't that so-and-so?" cameo coming up on "The Sopranos": Former Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth makes a quick appearance in this Sunday's...
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Sammy Hagar is growing his
Mexico-based Cabo Wabo Cantina into a franchise.
The rock artist and one-time Van Halen lead singer will
open the first U.S. version of the...
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Former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth is continuing to move forward with his lawsuit against the band over unpaid royalties. Roth filed his suit on December 11 in Los...
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David Lee Roth is brushing away any suggestion that he's a hero because he stopped an intruder at his home in Pasadena, California on Saturday (April 26). Roth was awakened...
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A press release from David Lee Roth says he used a shotgun to stop an intruder at his California home over the weekend. There's only one problem with the story--the police...
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David Lee Roth is suing his former bandmates in Van Halen and their record company, Warner Bros., for unpaid royalties.
In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on...
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Summer tour partners Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth presented the best rock video award at Thursday's (August 29) VMAs. The former Van Halen frontmen entered the stage from...
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"The Heavyweight Champs Of Rock 'N' Roll" are coming to the Video Music Awards (VMAs). Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth will present the "Moon Man" statue to the winner of the...
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David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar have announced a second round of dates for their co-headlining tour. The first leg of the outing wraps June 29 at the Gorge in George,...
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David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar might not be fond of Van Halen these days, but they're certainly--and justifiably--proud of the music they made during their separate tenures...
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Even without a catchy name like Sans Halen or Sam & Dave, former Van Halen frontmen Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth launched their summer tour together on Wednesday (May 29)...
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The Sammy Hagar/David Lee Roth co-headlining tour kicks off Wednesday (May 29) at the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. It's the first time the two former Van...
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Former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth is preparing to hit the road with another ex-Van Halen vocalist, Sammy Hagar. Although Roth hasn't officially been part of Van Halen...
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Never one to shy away from anything, David Lee Roth had some rather pointed comments at Tuesday's (April 16) press conference announcing his tour with Sammy Hagar.
The...
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The long-considered tour featuring former Van Halen vocalists Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth will finally become a reality this summer when the two rock giants join forces...
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The David Lee Roth/Sammy Hagar co-headlining tour will be announced Tuesday (April 16) at a press conference in Los Angeles. The two former Van Halen frontmen will alternate...
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From the "they said it would never happen" file comes news that Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth might tour together this summer. A posting on Hagar's official site...
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David Lee Roth has begun sending out his latest project, David Lee Roth's No Holds Bar-B-Que, to music-industry insiders. It's an hour-plus-long videotape that Roth...
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David Lee Roth is in the midst of a new project that features contributions from Joe Cocker, Metallica's Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett, and Chic leader Nile Rodgers.
Details...
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Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony has reportedly said that the band will tour and release an album in the coming months with original frontman David Lee Roth. Anthony was at...
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David Lee Roth apparently wasn't kidding when he said he was "ready to go" a few weeks ago--the singer has announced the first three dates of his David Lee Roth Saves The...
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Van Halen and David Lee Roth have parted company again. Rumors of a reunion between the band and its original lead singer have been rampant for some time, but Roth is now...
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David Lee Roth has filed suit against an online Van Halen retailer, claiming the operation is selling fake merchandise and making untrue statements. Roth's suit, filed in...
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The reunion of Van Halen and David Lee Roth is on, according to Dweezil Zappa. Roth, the original Van Halen lead singer who left the band in April 1985, is back with...
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With Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival Of Lights, beginning tonight (December 21), David Lee Roth spoke with LAUNCH about what being Jewish represents to him.
"I value my...
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On any given day, you can be sure that David Lee Roth is having a good time. Today (October 10), you can multiply that fun infinitely as "Diamond Dave" celebrates his 45th...
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There's been yet another published report of a Van Halen/David Lee Roth reunion, and just like all the others, there seems to be nothing to it. Saturday's (July 15) New...
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David Lee Roth is the latest star to record a song for the charity organization Songs of Love. Earlier this year, Roth entered a recording studio to sing a personalized...
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Speculation is running rampant -- especially on the Internet -- about the current status of
Van Halen. A number of fan websites report that original singer
David Lee...
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David Lee Roth has been quiet since the ousting of singer Gary Cherone from the Van Halen line-up, something generally uncharacteristic for the outspoken and flamboyant...
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David Lee Roth put on a special private performance for an approximate audience of 30 at the Nightingales rehearsal studio in Burbank, Calif. on Tuesday (June 1). The...
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MP Da Last Don by rapper/ entrepreneur/ filmmaker Master P remains on top of the Billboard 200 for the second consecutive week. Although P's sales dropped more than 50%...
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"In a time of accelerated radio and accessory media (i.e., the Internet, etc.), there is a place for all kinds of music and lyrical considerations. We have political...
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In a recent interview with Most New York magazine, David Lee
Roth made the surprising and somewhat masochistic confession that, despite all the mudslinging of the past...
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From David Lee
Roth to Sammy
Hagar to Extreme's Gary Cherone: the once-mighty Van
Halen continue on their collision course with irrelevance. Halen Mach III have just...
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Everyone knows that the only Van Halen that ever mattered was the Van Halen with David Lee Roth. Ever since Roth left the mega-metal group in 1985, he's had a bumpy,...
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