Articles on Van Halen Albums, Including: Live: Right Here, Right Now, Live Without a Net (Van Halen Video), Video Hits Volume I, Van Halen (Album), Van Halen II, 5150 (Album), Women and Children First (Album), Fair Warning, Diver Down by Hephaestus Books (Paperback / softback, 2011)
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