When guitarist Eddie Van Halen died of cancer in 2020, his older brother Alex was overwhelmed by grief. Only 20 months apart ...

The backstory: Initially, Alex Van Halen was the guitarist in the family, but he discovered that he had "no connection with the instrument," he says. His brother's link to the guitar, on the other ...

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

Hagar and Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony have played together in recent years and the singer says he has tried, in vain, ...

Van Halen's Sammy Hagar shared that he wants to mend his friendship with his former bandmate Alex Van Halen amid their longtime estrangement.

On Van Halen’s twelfth and final studio album, 2012’s A Different Kind of Truth, Wolfgang Van Halen blazed a bold new trail ...

Though Alex had been the guitarist in the ... that puts me right back there." On how Eddie Van Halen found his voice as a guitar player He played guitar from the moment he woke up to the moment ...

He was the most influential guitar player since Jimi Hendrix, and when he died at 65 in 2020, after a long battle with cancer, tributes flowed forth from all corners of the musical world. Alex Van ...

The band went through some famous lineup changes (mostly singers) through it's career, but Eddie and Alex are the only members of Van Halen who played on all of those albums. He played guitar from ...