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Van Halen: OU812

Deborah Frost, Village Voice, 28 June 1988

VAN HALEN'S resident virtuoso launched a zillion whammy bars and charted heavy guitar's course for the '80s. The band's high-concept ex-vocalist sent a nation out for peroxide and made hard rock front men sex symbols again.

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