UPDATE: Links have been fixed.
From Guardian.co.uk
In this recent podcast, the Guardian’s film & music editor, Michael Hann, tells about his passion for Van Halen, whom he describes as “the most important and influential white rock band apart from the Beatles.” This guy really gets how Van Halen totally reinvented hard rock and how David Lee Roth helped make them much more interesting than the other rock bands at the time.
The Van Halen talk starts at 1:12 for just a minute, and then the main VH segment begins at 36:07 and runs about 10 minutes.