Van Halen was a band about to splinter, the differences between its lead singer and its guitarist simply too vast to bridge. Those differences actually helped to make 1984, the album the band released ...

There’s never been another band quite like Van Halen, and there almost certainly never will be again. They embodied so many ...

Michael Jackson once paid Steve Stevens a huge compliment. The guitarist only discovered later it was the same one Jackson ...

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When guitarist Eddie Van Halen died of cancer in 2020, his older brother Alex was overwhelmed by grief. In the new memoir, Brothers, Alex looks back on his relationship with Eddie and the decades ...

When guitarist Eddie Van Halen died of cancer in 2020, his older brother Alex was overwhelmed by grief. Only 20 months apart in age, they had grown up together as "a ...

But some songs aren’t meant to be laboured over, and Eddie Van Halen thought that what these 1970s legends were doing was far too perfect for their own good. Then again, it’s hard to talk about ...

Though Alex had been the guitarist in the family, when they formed Van Halen, it quickly became clear who would play: "[Ed] made that instrument sing." Alex's new memoir is Brothers.

Alex Van Halen stopped by the Robert Frost Auditorium in Culver City, California, on Thursday for a Live Talks Los Angeles event to promote his newly released memoir Brothers and discuss his ...

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What led you to do the book? Van Halen: There’s a lot of things that were left on the table, so to speak. I got the feeling Ed and I never got to complete what we came to the planet for -- that ...

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