Van Halen fired Hagar in 1996, after which the singer returned to making music under his own name and focused on his bars — ...

For Sammy Hagar, it’s been a pretty conventional ... just after receiving a Key to the Las Vegas Strip at his Cabo Wabo Cantina at Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood.

Sammy Hagar's understandably proud of this one -- after all, it features the name of one of the more underrated songs in Van Halen's history, a successful club he owns in Mexico, and of course ...

As a businessman, he founded the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand and restaurant chain. Hagar also owns Sammy’s Beach Bar & Grill Maui at Kahului Airport.

LOS ANGELES — Sammy Hagar has been one of ... 90s to his perch in recent decades atop the Cabo Wabo booze-and-bars empire. Yet these days, Hagar says, "I seem to get along better with guys ...