Latest about Eddie Van Halen
“I said, ‘How come you didn't use these!?’” Steve Lukather says Eddie Van Halen’s unreleased recordings left him stunned
Lukather says the unreleased recordings are completed performances by both Van Halen brothers — not scraps being pieced together after the fact
“So close that our knees would touch.” David Lee Roth recalls his earliest writing sessions with Eddie Van Halen
The singer says Van Halen’s first hit songs were born in a tiny alcove where he and Eddie shared cigarettes, argued over riffs and worked shoulder-to-shoulder
“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
