Sammy Hagar chats with USA TODAY's Marco della Cava about his motivation to keep creating and his days as the lead singer of Van Halen.
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The pandemic knocked Sammy Hagar out of his groove. Stifled creatively, bummed out emotionally, the Red Rocker’s normally soaring spirit couldn’t take flight.
“I wasn’t depressed so much as I was confused,” says Hagar, 75. “I didn’t have anything to write about. I’m such a positive guy, but that was such a negative time. But I didn’t want to write about negativity, so I just shut down.”
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I feel like i wanna call BS when sammy says he made amends with eddie before he died !!! He said a lot of cruel things in his book and he wants to make himself feel better about himself!