Watch Van Halen’s Video for ‘Jump’ Van Halen said he wrote the song “during or before” the sessions for 1981’s Fair Warning album, when asked about its origins of ‘Jump’ in a 1984 ...

Three years after Eddie Van Halen’s “Jump” keyboard riff was originally rejected by his bandmates, who wanted him to stay focused on guitar heroics, the song not only became the group’s ...

Van Halen was a band about to splinter, the differences between its lead singer and its guitarist simply too vast to bridge. Those differences actually helped to make 1984, the album the band released ...

Not that there was anything wrong with Van Halen's first five albums -- at all ... courtesy of the massive introductory hit single 'Jump' and its eventual follow-up 'I'll Wait.' ...

We also talked about singing David Lee Roth-era songs like “Jump” and “Panama” for the first time in 20 years, Satriani’s ...

Van Halen's long-time frontman David Lee Roth posted ... His band were best known for their song Jump, which hit the top of the US charts in 1984. His son Wolfgang paid tribute to him on social ...

After the success of 'Jump' and 'I'll Wait,' and with "Diamond Dave" gone, there was no stopping Eddie Van Halen from using his ... sophisticated and confident rock songs toward the end of the ...