{"id":87370,"date":"2021-10-03T11:02:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=87370"},"modified":"2021-10-03T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T16:13:53","slug":"david-lee-roth-announces-his-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=87370","title":{"rendered":"David Lee Roth – Announces His Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

David Lee Roth<\/strong>, the original lead singer of VAN HALEN<\/strong>, has announced his retirement in\u00a0an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I am throwing in the shoes. I’m retiring,” Roth told the newspaper in a phone call. “This is the first, and only, official announcement … You’ve got the news. Share it with the world.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN has reached out to Roth’s representatives for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flamboyant front man was known as “Diamond Dave” during the band’s 1970s and ’80s heyday, when the foursome had hits like “Dance the Night Away” and “Jump.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roth’s announcement comes just shy of a year after Eddie Van Halen, the band’s lead guitarist and one of its namesakes, died of cancer<\/a>. The singer referenced Van Halen’s death in the call with the Las Vegas newspaper, saying he had been thinking about “the departure of my beloved classmate.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I am encouraged and compelled to really come to grips with how short time is, and my time is probably even shorter,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The band formed after Van Halen and his brother, Alex, met Roth. The band released more than a dozen albums over four decades, through a rotating cast of lead singers: Roth was replaced by Sammy Hagar, who was replaced by Gary Cherone — the band then went back to Hagar and, eventually, back to Roth again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roth told the Review-Journal he remembered the early days with the band “like they were yesterday.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roth has five shows scheduled at House of Blues in Las Vegas beginning New Year’s Eve and running into early January — five shows he says will be his last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’ve given you all I’ve got to give. It’s been an amazing, great run, no regrets, nothing to say about anybody. I’ll miss you all. Stay frosty.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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