“I saw people in the audience holding up these banners: ‘SAMMY SUCKS!' 'WE WANT DAVE!’”: How Sammy Hagar and Van Halen won their war with David Lee Roth

Van Halen in 1986.

The announcement came on April Fool’s Day, 1985. But this was no joke.

America’s biggest rock band had lost its superstar singer. David Lee Roth had quit Van Halen.