When Van Halen teamed up with yacht rock royalty in 1984

When Van Halen teamed up with yacht rock royalty in 1984

Even the most hard-rocking fan of Van Halen will acknowledge that glossy pop gleam always played a vital role in their later hair metal chart conquest. Pasadena’s most famous musical export practically invented the whole glam metal era that was about to explode all over the incipient MTV landscape. They had the look nailed from 1978’s eponymous debut, a heavily hair-sprayed and open-chested slice of cartoon California that borrowed choice picks …