Like most people I am shocked by the fact that Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50. Although I really wasn’t a big fan, no one can deny the impact he made on pop music. The success of his massive 1982 album “Thriller” changed the course of music forever, becoming the [...]
Call my a VH purist, but I prefer the party-hearty, showman style of the Roth era over the workman-like pop leanings of the Hagar era. I like Sammy’s stuff, just not as much. While Van Halen has had many hits throughout the years, this playlist is not about the hits, it’s about standout album tracks that came out during the first Roth era.
Lantern-jawed Peter Cetera was the bassist and occasional vocalist of the band Chicago throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was well known for its jazz-inflected pop and distinctive horn section (“Saturday in the Park”, “25 or 6 to 4″), but added another wrinkle in 1976, when the Cetera-penned ballad “If You Leave Me [...]
