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Title: Van Halen at the Forum
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Date Created and/or Issued: 1984
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph included in the Exhibit: From Pop to the Pit, The LAPL Photo Collection Celebrates the L.A. Music Scene, 1978-1989.
One of the most successful rock acts of all time, Van Halen got their start at high school dances and at Gazzari's and the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip.
First photograph caption dated May 15, 1984 reads, "From under a heavenly blue light, lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen inspired ecstasy in Sunday night's crowd." Van Halen is shown in mid-leap onstage at the LA Forum.; Second photograph caption dated November 27, 1986 reads, "What? Cut those locks? Eddie Van Halen did just that, for an upcoming video."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00121776
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Musical Groups--Van Halen
CARL0005343104
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/34052
Subject: Van Halen, Eddie,--1957-
Van Halen (Musical group)
Forum (Inglewood, Calif.)
Guitarists--United States
Rock groups--United States
Rock musicians--United States
Guitars
Rock concerts--California--Inglewood
Men--California--Inglewood
Inglewood (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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