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“Right Now”

“IT’S A SONG that’s had some real resonance,” Sammy Hager says of “Right Now,” the sing-along rock anthem from Van Halen’s 1991 album, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. “Sometimes you’re able to write a song that expresses how you feel, and it strikes a nerve with other people and they say, ‘Yes. That’s exactly how I feel, too.’ For a songwriter, that’s an incredible response to your work.”

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Hagar cites “Right Now”

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