Born on this day in 1954 – American rock vocalist, and songwriter David Lee Roth who with Van Halen had the 1984 US No.1 & UK No.7 single ‘Jump’ and solo hits with the songs ‘California Girls,’ ‘Yankee Rose,’ and ‘Just Like Paradise,’ in the late 1980s. Van Halen’s 1978 debut album has sold more than twelve million copies. In 2004, Roth appeared on the TV series The Sopranos as a poker-playing guest of Tony Soprano. In 2004, he trained as a state-licensed emergency medical technician in New York.