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While you’ve been busy cranking “Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love” or “Panama” on repeat, you might have forgotten about these Van Halen deep cuts.
History says Clapton insulted Van Halen. Taken within context, his comments were part of a wider discussion about ...
As a member of the rock band Private Life in the 80s, which released two albums under Ted Templeman and Eddie Van Halen, Macleod’s entertainment career bloomed. The band’s discography includes “Touch ...
Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli were married for 26 years and shared one son, Wolfgang. (Paul Natkin/Getty Images) "I wore it proudly," Bertinelli said of the comparison.
No one really knows when the first guitar hero sprang to life. Even though many people have their first awakening moments on the instrument listening to someone like Eddie Van Halen or Jimi Hendrix, ...
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 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 ...
Travers’ sentiments concerning cartoon copies of Van Halen are shared by Eddie’s son, Wolfgang Van Halen, who recently discussed how his father “kind of ruined” the 1980s guitar scene.
In “Dreams,” Eddie Van Halen upped the ante on his power ballad game by adopting that sound. ... They lean hard into that caricature in this track. It’s inappropriate crushing at its finest.
Greene: The one that comes to my mind is “Small Talk”—boy, just the first 10 seconds alone, there’s this sort of Dave Navarro-y stop-start groove. It’s not an Eddie Van Halen solo per se ...
A planned TV special that purports to examine the final hours of the life of legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen is being slammed by some of his loved ones. Van Halen, who died in 2020 at the age ...
Artists “He went into this trance state as he played”: A close encounter with the genius of Eddie Van Halen. Artists How Prince summoned one of the greatest guitar solos of all time from thin air. ...