Fair Warning (Van Halen album)

Fair Warning (Van Halen album)

Fair Warning is the fourth studio album by American rock band Van Halen. Released on April 29, 1981, it sold more than two million copies. Despite the album’s commercially disappointing sales, Fair Warning was met with mostly positive reviews from critics.

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Summary Fair Warning (Van Halen album)Fair Warning is the fourth studio album by American rock band Van Halen. Released on April 29, 1981, it sold more than two million copies, but was still the band’s slowest-selling album of the David Lee Roth era. Despite the album’s commercially disappointing sales, Fair Warning was met with mostly positive reviews from critics. The cover artwork features a detail from The Maze, a painting by Canadian artist William Kurelek, which depicts his tortured youth.

The album’s cover artwork is accompanied by an insert of a black-and-white portrait of the members of the band, in addition to another black- and-white photo of an exterior wall featuring cracked windows. This second photo was taken by famed rock photographer Neil Zlozower.