Hair Band History (July 15th)

July 1990: Vixen released "How Much Love" as the lead single from their forthcoming sophomore album "Rev It Up". The music video hit MTV in the US on July 21st. Part of your summer soundtrack that year, it reached No. 11 on the US Mainstream Rock singles chart.

Vixen "How Much Love" release information source: [US] The Hard Report radio trade publication ad - July 20, 1990; [UK] Kerrang! ad - July 21, 1990.

July 1984: Lita Ford was on her way to her first rock radio hit with single "Gotta Let Go" from her second album "“Dancin’ On The Edge". The music video with Lita taking out Lenny and Squiggy type home invaders with her guitar is pure '80s. R&R radio trade publication ad - July 13, 1984

July 1985: "Invasion Of Your Privacy" was out worldwide and with red hot RATT scheduled to play the "Monsters Of Rock" Festival at Castle Donington for the first time, the band got the cover of the UK's Kerrang! magazine... "And believe me we're really looking forward to it. We need to go to Europe very badly because this world infestation isn't going to be completed until we've infested everybody." -Stephen Pearcy

Happy Birthday to former Bonham drummer Jason Bonham (July 15, 1966).

KISS' "Creatures Of The Night" was reissued with a new cover in 1985. Guitarist Bruce Kulick is pictured but he did not play on the record, just like Ace Frehley was on the original 1982 cover, but Vinnie Vincent played on the recording 🤦‍♀️

July 15, 1984: If you missed Scorpions and Bon Jovi in South Florida a day earlier, you could get up early and make the drive to Jacksonville to catch 'em at the Coliseum.

Van Halen's second album with Sammy Hagar was issued in May 1988 and by the summer, some started wondering about the monkey on the back cover 🤔 R&R US radio trade publication - July 15, 1988

Just shy of two years since its release in August 1987 and 12 million copies sold, the success in the US of Def Leppard's fourth studio album "Hysteria", was celebrated with this ad in Billboard Magazine (July 15, 1989).