A clarinet isn't the kind of instrument you expect to find in a Van Halen track, and yet it turns up in this 1981 classic.

I look at my clarinet sometimes and think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know. As Ian Dury might have sung had he played the clarinet, "Hit me with your licorice stick.

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