In the early 70's, the combination of Roth's exuberant style and Eddie Van Halen's solid musicality converged in the rock and roll continuum to create what many people consider the seminal rock and roll band - Van Halen.
During the Roth era of Van Halen between 1974 and 1985, the band released six albums, and every single one went on to be certified platinum multiple times over. After the release of 1984's hit album 1984, citing creative differences, Roth and Van Halen parted ways. While Eddie Van Halen wanted to pursue more serious tenets of his craft, Roth wanted to keep things light and fun (remember "California Girls" and "I Ain't Got Nobody"?).
Roth's first three solo albums all broke into the top 20 of the Billboard 200 album chart with the latter two breaching the top 10.This included his third solo album, Skyscraper, and track #1 was "Just Like Paradise". It eventually became his 2nd highest ranked solo single behind "California Girls".
I was a sophomore at Auburn in the fall of 1988. Sometime during that year, I was gifted one of those new fangled CD players. One of the first CDs I bought was Skyscraper and "Just Like Paradise" was my favorite track. A very cool innovation with these CD players was the ability to skip and repeat tracks (no more fast forwarding and flipping tapes for me). Guess which song got a lot of repetitive play.
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