Fair Warning

1981 studio album by Van Halen

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Performer: Van Halen
Released: April 29, 1981
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Genre: hard rock
Tracklist: Unchained
, Push Comes to Shove
, So This Is Love?
Producer: Ted Templeman

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Fair Warning is the fourth studio album by American rock band Van Halen. Released on April 29, 1981, by Warner Bros. Records, the album peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200, while the single "So This Is Love?" failed to reach Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 110 on the Bubbling-Under list. The album sold more than two million copies in the United States, but was still the band's slowest-selling album of the David Lee Roth era. Despite the album's commercially disappointing sales, Fair Warning was met with mostly positive reviews from critics. It was listed by Esquire as one of the "75 Albums Every Man Should Own".

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Recorded at studio or venue: Sunset Sound
Language: English
Title: Fair Warning
Distribution format: LP record
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Place of publication: United States
Part of: Van Halen's albums in chronological order follows: Women and Children First · followed by: Diver Down
Number of parts of this work: 9 audio track
Review score: 4 review score by: AllMusic · author: Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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1.Stated in AllMusicRetrieved 2020-10-24
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Different from: Fair Warning criterion used: title refers to multiple creative works
Form of creative work: studio album

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