Wolfgang Van Halen and EVH Gear's Matt Bruck on the difficult birth of a modern tube amp legend, and arguably the best metal ...

Yet the legacy of that '80s boom still looms large. The decade produced enduring stars and timeless records, but it also ...

Paul McCartney once called this particular player better than many people's "best guitarist" pick, Eddie Van Halen.

But it worked out just fine for Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell when he and Eddie became friends in the 1990s.

Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille ignited the crowd at the first date of the Stadium Tour — also featuring Motley Crue, Def Leppard and Joan Jett — when he broke out Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption" during ...

Van Halen founder Eddie Van Halen died in 2020 after a years-long battle with cancer at the age of 65 Alexandra Schonfeld is a staff editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since April 2022.

Eddie Van Halen and Chris Cornell came tantalizingly close to collaborating on one of Cornell's songs, according to the late singer's former guitarist Pete Thorn. Thorn — whose extensive resume also ...

When Van Halen recorded You Really Got Me, they took a beloved Kinks song and gave it a raw, heavy edge that helped define their sound.

'I was with him from day one,' Alex writes of his brother Eddie Van Halen, who died in 2020 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital ...

Spending his entire life surrounded by music, Wolfgang Van Halen shared the hardest part about writing and recording a song.