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Eddie Van Halen died at age 65 in October 2020, leaving the world without its greatest post-Sixties guitar hero, and Alex without his brilliant, maddening, agonizingly sensitive baby brother, his ...
Van Halen worked incredibly well with Sammy Hagar, but they wound up regretting not using this song that he pitched them.
Eddie Van Halen's older brother Alex is mourning the loss of the Van Halen guitarist following his death on Tuesday. He was 65. In a statement obtained by PEOPLE on Thursday, Alex said: “Hey, Ed.
Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen during the 1994 Van Halen Golf Tournament in Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc.) He was married twice, ...
However, while many people would have felt intimidated by his brilliance, there were plenty of guitarists who didn’t feel as though there was any reason to be daunted by his majesty. Some even went as ...
Alex is about to publish a book, the frank, funny memoir Brothers, tracing his life with Eddie from their childhood to the end of the original Van Halen lineup in 1984. He took on the project in ...
Eddie Van Halen is no stranger to lending his talents to movie soundtracks, having scored 1984’s coming-of-age comedy-drama ...
Alex Van Halen will release the last-ever song he worked on with Eddie Van Halen in the audiobook version of his upcoming memoir.. Brothers is set to arrive on Oct. 22, with the spoken-word ...
Alex and Eddie, both born in Amsterdam, began playing music together in childhood. Van Halen, which they formed after moving to California, rose to fame with their 1978 self-titled debut album.
Hagar became Van Halen's new frontman in 1985, when he replaced original lead singer David Lee Roth, joining Alex, who was the band's drummer, Alex's brother and guitarist Eddie Van Halen, and ...
Alex Van Halen is shedding light on his brother Eddie Van Halen’s addiction to prescription pills. In his first interview since Eddie’s death, Alex, 71, explained that his late brother, the ...
Alex Van Halen will release the last-ever song he worked on with Eddie Van Halen in the audiobook version of his upcoming memoir. Brothers is set to arrive on Oct. 22, with the spoken-word edition ...