American Songwriter: 41 Years Ago on April Fools’, David Lee Roth Quit Van Halen To Become a Movie Star: “He Even Had the Balls To Ask if I’d Write the Score for Him” The story goes that frontman David Lee Roth abandoned Van Halen for a solo career o 1985. Is that what happened? 41 Years Ago on April Fools’, David Lee Roth Quit Van Halen To Become a Movie Star: “He Even Had the Balls To Ask if I’d Write the Score for Him” The Pacific Northwest Inlander: David Lee Roth brings his legend and leather to Spokane When David Lee Roth unexpectedly did some concerts in the summer of 2025, his first live shows in five years, certain classic rock corners of the internet blew up with fanshot clips of a 70-year-old ...

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