5150 is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. It was released on March 24, 1986 by Warner Bros. Records and was the first of four albums to be recorded with lead singer Sammy Hagar, who replaced David Lee Roth. The album hit number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
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5150 is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. It was released on March 24, 1986 by Warner Bros. Records and was the first of four albums to be recorded with lead singer Sammy Hagar, who replaced David Lee Roth. The album hit number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, surpassing the band’s previous album, 1984, which had peaked at number 2 behind Michael Jackson’s Thriller album. Despite the controversy of replacing Roth, the album was their first to top the Billboard200, as stated by Hagar on the Live Without a Net concert video. Unlike the Roth-era tracks, Hagar was competent guitarist, allowing Eddie to play keyboards on some songs. Album opener can be heard in the movie Space Deco. The artwork features an depiction of an Atlas kneeling holding a mirror-ished metallic sphere on his shoulders. The model for the album’s Body Shaping logo was Rick Valente’s body wrapped around the sphere.
The cover of the album depicts the Atlas character collapsed, with the band dropped and broken open, revealing the broken character inside. Reviews were initially mixed, with some initially revealing the band had dropped the character and broken the sphere inside, revealing that the band was actually inside a sphere with the character’s head on the back of it. The 5150 name has been used several times by van Halen, and it has also been used as a name for a mentally disturbed person in the U.S. and in Europe. It is named after Eddie VanHalen’s home studio, 5150, in turn named after a California law enforcement term for a mental disturbed person. The album was also the first to feature no instrumentals, as it was recorded with Donn Landee as an engineer.
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