Musician, songwriter, and producer who co-founded the rock band Van Halen. He was joined in the band by Alex Van Halen, Wolfgang Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Michael Anthony, and Sammy Hagar. Before Fame As a child, he would travel from Pasadena to San Pedro to learn classical piano from...
Rock star and guitar great Eddie Van Halen has died aged 65 after a "long and arduous battle" with cancer, his son has said. In astatement, Wolf Van Halen said: "I can't believe I'm having to write this, but my father, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, has lost his long and ...
— discovered rock giants Van Halen when he was tipped off to catch the act playing at the Starwood in West Hollywood in 1977. Amazed by Eddie Van Halen’s otherworldly guitar prowess, he immediately brought then-Warner Bros. chairman/CEO Mo Ostin to see the band so he could sign it ...
In 1972, the Van Halen brothers formed a new band called “Genesis,” with Eddie on guitar and vocals, Alex on drums and Mark Stone on bass. After discovering that name was in use (and after a brief spell as “Mammoth”), the band settled on Van Halen as the name, and recruited vo...
Edward Van Halen’s destiny as a maestro was never in question: His middle name was Lodewijk, in honor of Ludwig van Beethoven, a cute family dare he later bestowed on his own son, who shares a first name with Wolfgang Mozart. His father Jan was a professional saxophone and clarinet pla...
Eddie would love to make another Van Halen album, but that plan has obstructions. “It’s hard, because there are four people in this band, and three of us like rock’n’roll. And one of us likes dance music,” he says. “And that used to kind of work, but now Dave doesn...
EDDIE VAN HALEN: I had fun. I always have fun, you know, once the nerves wear off. The funny thing is, before a show, I guess the main thing that [his son — and bass player] Wolfie and I always talk about it is, "You nervous yet? How nervous are you?" I go, "I'm not...
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Alex Van Halen 00:13:56 Yeah. You know, it started off as a two piece, and I was the original think the guys who put the band together. But at the end of the day when there was a disagreement in the band, I'm taking his side and vice versa because we protect each...
Originally from Amsterdam, Van Halen’s Dutch parents named him Edward Lodewijk van Halen; it’s a nod to the famous composer, Beethoven. Nearly two years after Van Halen’s parents welcomed their first son, as biographer Kevin Doddswrites, “Edward Lodewijk Van Halen followed on January 26...