Year To The Day

Album: Van Halen III (1998)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Year To The Day" is the longest song Van Halen ever released - it runs 8:34. It's from the Gary Cherone era, with a lyric that is more typical of his band Extreme than of Van Halen. The song is the story about a lovelorn guy whose girl left him a year to the day earlier. It's many miles away from the swaggering songs they made with their original lead singer, David Lee Roth. But Cherone feels it holds up. "'Year To The Day' is another track I thought was a strong song on that record," he told Songfacts.
  • The Van Halen III album, released in 1998, was the last one they made until 2012 when they returned with A Different Kind Of Truth, which ended up being their last. Gary Cherone was with them for just Van Halen III, joining in 1996 after Extreme fractured and leaving in 1999 when Van Halen went on hiatus. Cherone re-formed Extreme in 2007 and Van Halen picked up the pieces with Sammy Hagar in 2003.

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