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Eddie Van Halen onstage at the Cobo Arena during Van Halen's "Fair Warning Tour" on July 4, 1981, in Detroit, Michigan

'Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen' Biography Announced

Jackson Maxwell

Written by former Guitar World Editor-in-Chief Brad Tolinski and longtime Guitar World contributor Chris Gill, the book is based on more than 50 hours of unreleased interviews with the six-string legend.

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