Latest about Eddie Van Halen
“We did call him — he just didn’t answer.” Alex Van Halen explains why Michael Anthony was replaced by Wolfgang
The drummer says the band reached out to its longtime bassist before Eddie Van Halen’s teenage son joined the lineup.
“It was such great stuff.” Steve Vai says he’s heard Eddie Van Halen’s unreleased recordings
Vai recalls sitting in Eddie’s studio surrounded by unheard music — and explains why the guitarist believed Van Halen already was his solo career.
“I was like, ‘Ed, you better stop smoking.’” Valerie Bertinelli recalls the night she met Eddie Van Halen — and the “tragic, scary” years that followed
The actress says their whirlwind romance quickly collided with addiction, fame and the habits that ultimately damaged the guitarist’s health
“That's a form of abuse.” Sting says he won’t leave his $245 million fortune to his kids
The former Police frontman says trust funds can become “albatrosses” that undermine a child’s drive to work
“It sounds like a terrible B-flick horror soundtrack.” Eddie Van Halen on the night he got drunk and wrecked Marvin Hamlisch’s piano
During a late-night experiment in a rented Malibu home, the guitarist scraped the composer’s Yamaha grand with forks and knives — and turned the chaos into a track later used on Van Halen’s ‘Balance’
Nuno Bettencourt recalls the moment Eddie Van Halen stopped him from tapping on his own rig
When the Extreme guitarist finally met his hero in 1991, Eddie handed him his guitar — and proved he’d been reading his interviews
Ritchie Blackmore on his backstage encounters with Eddie Van Halen
The former Deep Purple guitarist says Van Halen was a “humble” player who “always used to underestimate himself”
The two strangest things Eddie Van Halen ever took to airport security
During the ‘Balance’ tour in 1995, the Van Halen guitarist had a pair of run-ins so unforgettable that even Ted Nugent weighed in.
