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Eddie was the most famous guitar player on the planet — the guy who had revolutionised the art of rock guitar in the ...
Four years after announcing his retirement, David Lee Roth took the stage at Maryland's M3 Rock Festival and performed some ...
The latest in-depth documentary from Simon Alkin focuses on the talent behind Eruption – a song that changed the guitar world ...
Eddie Van Halen was famed for his endlessly complex guitar stylings, but he owed a lot of his inspiration to the apparently "simple" sounds of Pete Townshend.
INDIO, Calif. — Sammy Hagar got the chance to work with his former bandmate, the late Eddie Van Halen, one last time. Hagar released a song, "Encore, Thank You, Goodnight," that came to him in a ...
In 1985, the 77-year-old singer-songwriter replaced Roth as the frontman of Van Halen, joining guitarist Eddie Van Halen, Eddie's brother and drummer Alex Van Halen and bassist Michael Anthony.
About a year after Eddie Van Halen died in 2020, Sammy Hagar had a dream that they were sharing a chill moment together. “He had a guitar around his neck and we were having a love fest since we ...
By McKinley Franklin Sammy Hagar’s new song, “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight,” pulls inspiration from a dream he had where he reunited with his late bandmate Eddie Van Halen. In 2022 ...
In early 2024, Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony surveyed how to keep Van Halen current. Hagar felt “an epiphany” and said to Anthony, “It’s up to us.” That moment seeded the “Best of ...