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Van Halen - Best of Van Halen, Volume 1

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Album Review

Release date: 18 October 1996

Van Halen - Best of Van Halen, Volume 1

Van Halen - 'A Different Kind Of Truth'

Goofball guitars and innuendo all the way

A lot of the songs on the first album in 28 years from the classic Van Halen line-up (with Dave Lee Roth singing) are based on demos they made in the ’70s. Good idea: the last thing you want from these eternal adolescents is their take – musically or lyrically –- on the modern world. So it’s goofball guitars and innuendo all the way. One song is called ‘She’s The Woman’ and...

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  • Feb 10, 2012

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Frontman also reveals he's nicknamed his member 'Little Elvis'

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Van Halen's Wolfgang Van Halen: 'One Direction are dickheads'

Bassist and son of guitar hero Eddie Van Halen slams boyband on Twitter

Eddie Van Halen named greatest guitarist of all time by Guitar World magazine

Eddie Van Halen named greatest guitarist of all time by Guitar World magazine

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