Gary Cherone

Exposed to music early by their father, a

…eventually replaced Hagar with singer Gary Cherone, who had previously fronted the glam metal band Extreme. Van Halen’s lone album with Cherone, Van Halen III (1998), was a commercial disappointment that was widely panned by critics. Cherone left Van Halen in 1999, and the band stagnated without a singer for…