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Up until now, it’s been relatively easy to ignore Van Halen, or to confuse them with Van Johnson.

July 1, 1980
Jim Farber

VAN HALEN

Women And Children First

(Warner Bros.)

Up until now, it’s been relatively easy to ignore Van Halen, or to confuse them with Van Johnson. Their dubious remake of “You Really Got Me,” which was as unimaginably ridiculous as Sissy Spacek in a Loretta Lynn wig, struck Z’s into many a skeptical heart. Their fans, the ambulatory ones that is, look like rejects from the studio audience of Focusing On Toddlers. And as for this David Lee Roth character...well, his dressing room mirror is sb covered with his own smoochprints that he can hardly even see to admire himself anymore.

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