DAVID LEE ROTH Top Songs from Canadian Billboard Charts

David Lee Roth Greatest Hits – Billboard Top Canadian Hit Singles. Canadian Top 100 Singles Billboard Charts.

David Lee Roth Biography

David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. In 2007, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Roth is best known as the original (1974–1985) and current (2006–present) lead singer of the Pasadena, California-based hard rock band Van Halen. He is also known as a successful solo artist, releasing numerous RIAA-certified Gold and Platinum records. After more than two decades apart, Roth re-joined Van Halen in 2006 for a North American tour that became the highest grossing in the band’s history and one of the highest grossing of that year. In 2012, Roth and Van Halen released the critically successful comeback album, A Different Kind of Truth.

In late 1985, Roth assembled a virtuoso solo band, consisting of guitarist Steve Vai (previously of Frank Zappa’s band), bassist Billy Sheehan (previously of Talas), and drummer Gregg Bissonette (previously of Maynard Ferguson’s big band). With veteran Van Halen producer Ted Templeman producing, Roth released his debut solo LP, Eat ‘Em and Smile in July 1986. The album saw Roth return to hard rock music, but also incorporated some of his more eclectic musical tastes, ranging from jazz to speed metal. Eat ‘Em and Smile met with widespread commercial and critical success, charting at #4 on the Billboard Top 200, and selling over 2 million copies in the U.S. alone. Roth and his band toured arenas extensively in support of Eat ‘Em and Smile, before returning to the studio in 1987 to record a follow-up.

In January 1988, Roth released Skyscraper, a more experimental recording featuring the hit single “Just Like Paradise.” Co-produced by Roth and Steve Vai under the working title “Cliffhanger”, Skyscraper peaked at #6 on the Billboard album chart and ultimately sold two million copies in the US. Soon after Skyscraper’s release, Billy Sheehan left Roth’s band due to musical differences. He was replaced in time for the album’s support tour with bassist Matt Bissonette, (drummer Gregg Bissonette’s brother.) The international, arena tour was a major production featuring, at different points during each concert, Roth surfing above the audience on a surfboard suspended from an arena’s rafters, and lowered into the center of each arena in a descending boxing ring. Both parts of the stage show were featured in the “Just Like Paradise” music video. The show also featured the band in a calypso segment playing Caribbean steel drums and in an unplugged segment where the band performed acoustic covers of some rock and roll classics. Following the tour for Skyscraper, Steve Vai left Roth’s band to pursue a solo career and record and tour with Whitesnake.

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