Latest about Eddie Van Halen
Watch Van Halen’s incendiary 1984 Monsters Of Rock set – and Eddie’s 10-minute guitar solo – at Castle Donington as pro-shot footage emerges online
A band and their trailblazing guitarist at the height of their powers blaze through an hour-long set of Van Halen classics
Wolfgang Van Halen on his approach as a multi-instrumentalist: "Drums are, to me, the most important part. It's the backbone of everything"
As Mammoth WVH II drops, Wolfgang tells us about taking his one and only drum lesson from Eddie, and why Travis Barker and Danny Carey shaped his playing
"Certain people in the band at that time didn't like me doing things outside the group" – remembering when Eddie Van Halen joined Michael Jackson onstage to play Beat It without a rehearsal
"You got it Eddie!"
EVH Gear unleashes another hybrid monster electric guitar design in the shape of the limited edition Star
Putting a retro-style coke-bottle headstock on an offset Charvel body, this high-performance electric references a classic Eddie Van Halen guitar from the early '80s
New Van Halen documentary takes us back to the early ‘80s to tell the story of how Eddie built 5150 Studios as the band were coming apart
Or how Eddie Van Halen helped pioneer working from home, reinvented guitar, befriended Frank Zappa and ended up producing My Mother Is A Space Cadet for a young Dweezil Zappa
Eddie Van Halen’s Hot For Teacher Kramer sells at auction for just under $4 million
The red-white-and-black S-style electric guitar that Paul Unkert built Eddie becomes one of the most expensive guitars of all time
Wolfgang Van Halen is planning to track the solos to his next album with his dad's iconic guitars
Including the Frankenstein and Shark
"There was another take of Beat It" – Steve Lukather on re-tracking his parts with Jeff Porcaro under Eddie Van Halen's solo
This is probably the best interview we've seen with the guitarist and he reveals new revelations about the legendary sessions on Michael Jackson's album
Steve Lukather recalls how Prince gave him the silent treatment and shares memories of being one of the few guitarists to jam with Eddie Van Halen live
“I’m playing all day long and the cat never said nothing to me,” says Lukather, who admits to being more than a little creeped out The Purple One's inscrutable in-studio demeanour
