Van Halen, the band, may not be happy that John McCain used its song “Right Now” during a recent speech. But Sammy Hagar, who wrote the lyrics to the song, not only approves but he’s already revised the track, and iconic video, for a new tune called “Cosmic Universal Fashion.”...
We get so used to the sleek, funky side of Michael Jackson on the hit parade that wasThrillerthat it's easy to forget how hard ‘Beat It’ actually legitimately rocks. And it's not just Eddie Van Halen's famous finger-busting solo; it’s that perfectly formed sneer of a guitar riff ...
Eddie Van Halen had just released 5150, but he really hadn’t become Eddie Van Halen yet. Crazy young guns like Jake E. Lee, Warren DiMartini, George Lynch, Brad Gillis, and Vivian Campbell were all over the airwaves and MTV. It was the golden age of what’s now derisively called ...
Mitch Malloy found out he wasn't going to take over forSammy Hagarin Van Halen whilewatching TVin the mid '90s. He says they had even started working on new music together beforeDavid Lee Rothfamously joined Van Halen onstage during MTV's Video Music Awards – his first appearance since ...
That's the way my twisted parodist's brain work, I love double entendres, putting twice the fun in half the space and to include wordplays like that in my lyrics whenever I can, so as to get as much humour and second time surprises as possible into my parodies. ...
Believe it or not, one of the world's most famous guitarists thought he could keep his performance on pop superstar Michael Jackson's 1983 smash "Beat it" a secret – even from his bandmates. Eddie Van Halen decided to spend a half hour recording his now-famous solo as a favor, while...
Pontillo:We did the video in a very easy way, on a blue screen. We didn’t know what was going to happen. They told us… its based on the lyrics, so it’s clear what was going to happen, but we didn’t have any idea about the final product. When it came out, I was blown ...
Undeath are a must-follow on social media and their fun-loving nature permeates the music, even if the lyrics are still quite gruesome. It all feels a tad tongue-in-cheek, which is a good thing because death metal doesn’t need to be super duper serious and after two years of literal...
We get so used to the sleek, funky side of Michael Jackson on the hit parade that wasThrillerthat it's easy to forget how hard ‘Beat It’ actually legitimately rocks. And it's not just Eddie Van Halen's famous finger-busting solo; it’s that perfectly formed sneer of a guitar riff...