5150 arrived on July 23, 1986.
There was "Space Station No. 5" from Montrose's debut album and "Space-Age Sacrifice" from their second. Subsequent solo songs with similar themes included "Silver Lights," "Hot Rocks," "Little Star," "Returning Home" and "Someone Out."
"So, my whole career I've been writing about these kinda things," Hagar confirmed during a 2011 interview with MTV, "but they've never been the hits."
"Love Walks In" changed that, nearly cracking the Top 20. Of course, it's possible that many radio listeners simply missed this synth-driven power ballad's references to an otherworldly memory – or maybe they decided Hagar was being metaphorical. Either way, this objectively pretty single had "love" right there in the title, so it quickly became a slow-dance favorite.