This song serves as a tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen (1955-2020) of Van Halen fame. Van Halen is a band that you’ve undoubtedly heard of if you’re familiar with American rock music, and...
As noted in the trivia section, this is the first Van Halen single in which the band’s original lead singer, David Lee Roth, was not involved. Roth was known as a sex addict so to speak,...
As we have pointed out before, many of Van Halen’s classics are actually song centered on bedroom fun. And in terms of concealing such desires behind metaphors, this is one of the more-creative amongst the...
All things considered, “Panama” can be interpreted in one of two ways. Most-notably it is about a car. And depending on which particular origin story one subscribes to one – or perhaps both – of the...
It has been noted that David Lee Roth, the member of Van Halen who actually wrote the lyrics to “Jump”, has given different explanations concerning the song’s meaning. But as part of its official origin story he was...