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Samuel Roy Hagar was born October 13, 1947 in Monterey, California USA;
after a brief career as a boxer in the footsteps of his father, he began
singing in the late '60s, performing with various local outfits; it was
in the mid-'70s that he first gained popularity as lead singer and rhythm
guitarist for band Montrose.
After two albums with this Bay Area Hard-Rock group, Hagar struck out
on his own and in 1976 released "Nine On A Ten Scale".
The following year saw the release of two full-length discs: his eponymous
album, known as the red-album, which broke the U.S. Pop chart and "Musical
Chairs"; the third album hit #100 in U.S. and "You Make Me Crazy"
became his first American Pop Singles chart entry at #62.
The live set, "All Night Long", released in 1978, peaked at
#89 on the Pop Albums chart and was followed, a year later, by his fourth
studio-LP "Street Machine", the record peaked at #71 in U.S.
and spawned the hit single "Plain Jane".
His next album, "Danger Zone", enjoyed about the same chart
success as its predecessor.
Hagar's breakthrough album arrived in 1981, "Standing Hampton"
climbed the U.S. Pop chart reaching the #28 position and generated a string
of hits including "I'll Fall In Love Again" which peaked at
#2 on The Mainstream Rock chart, "There's Only One Way To Rock"
reached #31, "Baby's On Fire" the #35 spot on the same chart
and "Piece Of My Heart" hit the Hot 100 Pop Singles chart.
During the next year, he contributed the title-song to the soundtrack
of the film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", the track reached
the #21 slot on The Mainstream Rock chart.
"Three Lock Box" was issued in 1983, its lead single, "Your
Love Is Driving Me Crazy", peaked at #13 in U.S. Pop chart, soared
to the #3 spot on The Rock Tracks chart and helped propel the album to
#17 in U.S. Top 200 LPs & Tapes list, his best chart-placing to date;
the LP contained two more Mainstream Rock hit singles: the #6 "Remember
The Heroes" and the top 30 "I Don't Need Love" as well
as "Never Give Up" which entered the top 50 of the Official
Pop Singles chart.
The next album, "VOA", arrived a year later and peaked at #32
on The Billboard 200 chart spawning the hit single "I Can't Drive
55" which climbed into the top 30 of The Billboard Hot 100 and peaked
at #9 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks; the second single cut, "Two
Sides Of Love", also made top 40 on the same charts.
In 1985, Hagar assumed the role of lead singer in Van
Halen, from whom David Lee Roth
had recently departed, his first album with the band was 1986's "5150".
The following year he released another solo effort, "I Never Said
Goodbye"; the disc peaked at #14 in U.S. Top 200 Albums chart spawning
the Active Rock #1 single "Give To Live", which also peaked
at #23 on The Billboard Hot 100; the album produced three further Active
Rock top 30 hits: "Boys' Night Out", "Eagles Fly"
and "Returning Home". That same year he scored another top 3
hit on The Mainstream Rock Tracks chart with "Winner Takes It All",
used for the soundtrack to the Sylvester Stallone movie "Over The
Top".
The collection "Unboxed", wich was issued in March of 1994 contained
two previously unreleased songs including the Mainstream Rock top 5 hit
single "High Hopes".
Amid growing tensions, Hagar left Van Halen
in early 1996 claiming that he was fired by his bandmates.
He released "Marching To Mars" in May of 1997, his first solo
effort in ten years, the 11-song set peaked at #18 on The Billboard 200
Albums chart, it yielded the Active Rock chart-topping "Little White
Lie", plus the title-track, which rose to #3 and "Both Sides
Now" peaked at #11 on The Mainstream Rock list.
Two years later, he followed up with another Billboard 200 Albums' top
30 hit, "Red Voodoo" and the smash single "Mas Tequila",
which peaked at #2 on The Mainstream Rock chart; the second single, "Shag",
reached #22 on the same chart.
The next album, "Ten 13", was issued in late 2000 but did not
rise higher than the #52 position on The Billboard 200 chart spawning
the Active Rock top 10 hit "Serious Ju Ju" and "Let Sally
Drive" which reached #16 on The Mainstream Rock list.
Two years later was released an album credited to Sammy Hagar & The
Waboritas entitled "Not 4 Sale" but its sales were noticeably
weaker than its predecessor.
In March 2004 Van Halen confirmed that
Sammy Hagar had rejoined the veteran Hard-Rock band.
A year later, in June 2005, Sanctuary Records digitally released a new
Sammy Hagar And The Wabos' single, "Let Me Take You There";
track was even featured on "Livin' It Up" an album which restored
Hagar to the U.S. Billboard top 50; the disc released in July 2006, included
the single "Sam I Am" which received heavy airplay on album-Rock
radio across the States.
In mid-2007 Sammy Hagar with The Wabos released another digital single,
"Open".
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