While audio bootlegs of Van Halen's era-defining set at the Monsters Of Rock Festival at Donington Park in 1984 have circulated almost from the moment the band departed the stage, video has been in short supply. Footage of the band's performance of Hot For Teacher was filmed for MTV and is readily available, but the rest? Nowhere to be seen.
It wasn't meant to be this way. After a set-closing Panama, frontman David Lee Roth told the crowd, "we're going to take a little bit of film back to the United States, and show them how England fucking does it," but the full footage has never emerged. Until now.
