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

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

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

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 ...

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.

'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 ...

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 ...

Former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar revealed that he and Eddie Van Halen planned to make new music together before the iconic guitarist's death in 2020. The 76-year-old musician, who has released a ...

Eddie Van Halen's iconic red, white and black custom-made Kramer guitar was sold to an unnamed buyer at auction for $3.932 million, blasting past its pre-auction estimate of $2 to 3 million. The late ...