For journalists Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill, several decades of conversations with guitar legend Eddie Van Halen led to a friendship with the musician. When he died on Oct. 6, 2020, the news hit hard ...

Van Halen's cover of "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks helped rocket them to stardom, and the story behind how it came to be ...

Eddie Van Halen (26 January 1955 – 6 October 2020) was a Dutch-American musician, songwriter, producer, and inventor. Moving with his family (headed by musician Jan Van Halen) to Pasadena, California ...

Paul Stanley admitted that he and Kiss manager Bill Aucoin shot down working with Van Halen in 1976 to “pull the reins in” on Gene Simmons. The Kiss frontman reveals in Paul Brannigan’s upcoming Eddie ...

Alexander Arthur Van Halen (born May 8, 1953) is a Dutch American musician, and the drummer and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen. Initially, his brother Eddie played drums, while Alex ...

“Clearly, the guitar world and the music world lost a giant,” Tolinski says of Van Halen. “But I also felt sad on a personal level.” For Gill, the emotional wallop of Van Halen’s death felt much the ...