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| Genre = | Length = 4:02 | Label = Warner Bros. | Writer = | Producer = Ted Templeman | Certification = | Last single = "Secrets" (1982) | This single = "Jump" (1983) | Next single = "I'll Wait" (1984) | Misc = }} "Jump" is a song by the American rock band Van Halen. It was released in December 1983 as the lead single from their album ''1984''. It is Van Halen's only single to reach number one on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100.〔Whitburn, Joel. ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits'', 6th ed, Billboard Publications, Inc. 1996. ISBN 0-8230-7632-6〕 The song differs from earlier Van Halen songs in that it is driven by a rolling synth line (played on an Oberheim OB-Xa), although the song does contain a guitar solo, which Eddie Van Halen claims is his favorite solo he never wrote. This refers to the fact that it was spliced together from multiple takes. "Jump" is one of Van Halen's most popular and instantly recognizable compositions, perhaps because it encompasses aspects of two genres widely associated with 1980s popular music in America: synthpop and arena rock. David Lee Roth dedicated the song to martial artist Benny Urquidez, of whom he was a student. The song changed the future and style of Van Halen from being a predominantly hard rock band to one of more radio-oriented popular music. ==Writing and composition== The synth line was written around 1981 by Eddie Van Halen but it was refused by the other members of the band. In 1983, producer Ted Templeman asked Roth to take a listen to the unused song idea. Riding around in the back of his 1951 Mercury, with band roadie Larry Hostler driving, Roth listened repeatedly to the song. To come up with a lyric for it, he remembered seeing a television news report the night before about a man who was threatening to commit suicide by jumping off of a high building. Roth thought that one of the onlookers of such a scene would probably shout "go ahead and jump". Roth bounced this suggestion off of Hostler who agreed it was good. Instead of being about a threatened suicide, the words were written as an invitation to love. Roth later told ''Musician'' magazine that Hostler was "probably the most responsible for how it came out." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jump (Van Halen song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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