JUMP
VAN HALEN
SONGWRITERS: ALEX VAN HALEN; DAVID LEE ROTH; EDDIE VAN HALEN &
MICHAEL ANTHONY
PERFORMED BY THE CLASSIC ROCK
SHOW
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: MCMLXXXIV
LABEL: WARNER BROS
GENRE: SYNTH ROCK
YEAR: 1984
Van Halen
(/væn ˈheɪlɛn/ van HAY-len)
is an American rock band formed in Pasadena,
California in 1972. Credited with
"restoring hard rock to the forefront of the music scene", Van Halen
is known for its energetic live shows and for the work of its acclaimed lead
guitarist, Eddie Van Halen. The
band was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 2007.
From 1974
until 1985, Van Halen consisted of Eddie Van Halen; Eddie's brother, drummer Alex Van Halen;
vocalist David Lee Roth; and
bassist Michael
Anthony. Upon its release, the band's self-titled debut album reached No. 19 on the Billboard pop music charts. By the early 1980s, Van Halen was one of the most
successful rock acts of the time. The album 1984 was a hit; its lead single, "Jump",
is the band's only U.S. number one single to date and was internationally
known.
In 1985,
Van Halen replaced Roth with former Montrose lead vocalist Sammy Hagar.
With Hagar, the group released four U.S. number-one albums over the course of
11 years (5150 in 1986, OU812 in 1988, in 1991,
and Balance in 1995). Hagar left the band in 1996 shortly before the release of
the band's first greatest hits collection, Best
Of – Volume I. Former Extreme frontman Gary Cherone replaced
Hagar, remaining with the band until 1999; Van Halen then went on hiatus until
reuniting with Hagar for a worldwide tour in 2003. The following year, the band
released The Best of Both Worlds, its
second greatest hits collection. Hagar again left Van Halen in 2005; in 2006, Roth
returned as lead vocalist. Anthony was fired from the band
in 2006 and was replaced on bass guitar by Wolfgang Van Halen,
Eddie's son. In 2012, the band released the commercially and critically
successful A Different
Kind of Truth.
As of
March 2019, Van Halen is 20th on the RIAA list of
best-selling artists in the United States; the band has sold 56 million albums
in the States and more than 80 million worldwide, making them one of the best-selling
groups of all time. As of 2007, Van Halen was one
of only five rock bands with two studio albums that sold more than 10 million
copies in the United States. Additionally, Van Halen has charted 13 number-one
hits on Billboard's Mainstream
Rock chart. VH1 ranked the band seventh on a
list of the top 100 hard rock artists of all time.
"Jump"
is a song by American hard rock band Van Halen. It was
released in December 1983 as the lead single from their álbum 1984.
It is Van Halen's most successful single to date, reaching number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The
song differs from earlier Van Halen songs in that it is driven by a keyboard line (played on
an Oberheim OB-Xa)
although the song does contain a guitar solo,
which was spliced together from multiple takes. David Lee Roth dedicated the song to martial artist Benny "The Jet" Urquidez,
of whom he was a student.
It is
played before the start of each home game of Olympique de
Marseille and Brøndby IF. As part
of the goal celebrations it is also played every time A.C. Milan scores a goal at their home ground, San Siro.
The
original Winnipeg Jets of the National
Hockey League played "Jump" on the arena
PA system as the team came onto the ice. They used the song until the team's departure for
Phoenix after the 1995–96 season. On the team's return in 2011, public
outcry for use of the song initially was ignored, as the team's management
company True North
Sports and Entertainment wished to
create a break with the past, considering the previous Jets a different
organization from the new Jets (the former Atlanta Thrashers).
However, in 2016 True North resumed the use of "Jump", this time as
the team's goal song whenever
the Jets score a goal at Bell MTS Place.
"Jump"
was the theme song for the introduction of Chicago Cubs broadcasts on WGN-TV in 1984 and 1985
I get
up, and nothin' gets me down
You got it tough, I've seen the toughest around
And I know, baby, just how you feel
You got to roll with the punches and get to what's
real
Can't
you see me standin' here
I got my back against the record machine
I ain't the worst that you've seen
Can't you see what I mean?
Might
as well jump (jump)
Might as well jump
Go ahead and jump (jump)
Go ahead and jump
You,
who said that?
Baby,
how you've been?
You say you don't know
You won't know until you begin
Can't
you see me standing here
I got my back against the record machine
I ain't the worst that you've seen
Can't you see what I mean?
Might
as well jump (jump)
Go ahead and jump
Might as well jump (jump)
Go ahead and jump
Might
as well jump (jump)
Go ahead and jump
Might as well jump (jump)
Go ahead and jump
Jump
Jump
Jump
Jump.
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