Happy Father's Day! To celebrate, this week's All Access Photo is a picture of Eddie and his father, Jan Van Halen. Early on, Jan and Eugenia Van Halen impressed upon their sons a love of music that originally meant classical training. In Alex's case this meant playing classical guitar. He didn't take to it, though, and preferred playing his brother's drums. When Eddie … [Read more...]
Eddie Van Halen News
VHND’s All Access Photo: Ready to hit the Stage!
This week's photo is a never-before-seen candid taken backstage by a roadie in 1982. “All Access” Van Halen photos is a weekly feature at VHND.com. Every weekend we will be posting a photo from a roadie, friend, or band insider. Many will be exclusives that have never been seen anywhere before, and some will be supplied with new captions from David Lee Roth. Tune in every … [Read more...]
VHND’s All Access Photo: Marvin Hamlisch’s Beach House
Another never-before-seen photo! Here's Eddie Van Halen sitting at the white Yamaha grand piano of the late Marvin Hamlisch's beach house in Malibu. Ed rented the house during the spring/summer of 1983. At one point, Eddie experimented with new sounds by trashing the piano. He threw everything he could find into the piano and raked various items across the strings, including … [Read more...]
VHND’s All Access Photo: Eddie Backstage ’78
Imagine being backstage in 1978 and getting your own private performance from new kid on the block, Eddie Van Halen! Photographer Neil Zlozower took this shot shortly after the release of Van Halen's debut album. “All Access” Van Halen photos is a weekly feature at VHND.com. Every weekend we will be posting a photo from a roadie, friend, or band insider. Many will be … [Read more...]
Anniversary of Van Halen’s ‘OU812’
On this day in 1988 (May 24th), Van Halen's 8th album, OU812 ("Oh You Ate One Too"), was released. The album was the second to feature Sammy Hagar as lead singer. The number 1 album sold over 4 million copies in the US and featured 6songs that landed on the Billboard Hot 100 and/or the Mainstream Rock Tracks! Featured below is an interview with Eddie Van Halen … [Read more...]
VHND’s All Access Photo: Eddie Backstage ’82
This week's photo is from Van Halen’s "Hide Your Sheep" 1982 tour. Check out the rare guitars! “All Access” Van Halen photos is a weekly feature at VHND.com. Every weekend we will be posting a photo from a roadie, friend, or band insider. Many will be exclusives that have never been seen anywhere before, and some will be supplied with new captions from David Lee Roth. Tune … [Read more...]
VIDEO: Eddie Van Halen & LL Cool J interviewed on Piers Morgan Live
Watch the complete segment of Eddie Van Halen and LL Cool J interviewed on Piers Morgan Live. May 3rd, 2013. … [Read more...]
Eddie Van Halen & Michael Jackson Go #1 With “Beat It”
"Beat It," the classic collaboration between Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen, went Number One on the Billboard chart on this day in 1983. “Beat It” hit the charts on 3/12/83, lasting 15 weeks and reaching #1 in the U.S. on April 30th, 1983, and #3 in the U.K. “Beat It” held the #1 spot for three weeks, and won Grammys for Record of the Year and Best Male Rock Vocal … [Read more...]
LL Cool J’s AUTHENTIC Released Today: Listen to Both Songs With Eddie Van Halen Here
LL Cool J's new album AUTHENTIC is released today. Eddie Van Halen guests on two tracks, which can be listened to below. "We're The Greatest" features Eddie Van Halen on guitar, who LL himself heralds as "one of the greatest guitar players that ever lived." Travis Barker plays drums on the track. "It's not necessarily about me and Eddie, per se," LL told Radio.com of the … [Read more...]
VHND’s All Access Photo: 5150 Studio
This week’s photo is from 1985 and shows Eddie Van Halen and then wife Valerie Bertinelli chillin' at 5150 Studios. Never published anywhere until now! (Technically, we did publish this photo in issue #8 of The Inside magazine back in '97, but the vast majority of fans have never seen it. The Inside was Van Halen's official magazine that we published from 1995-2000). “All … [Read more...]
Photo of Young Alex Van Halen / Video of their Childhood Home
Below is a short 4-minute video which shows Eddie and Alex's childhood home in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The video is entirely in Dutch, so we sent this video to Eddie himself for verification. He really got a kick out of it, and said that it is indeed the building where he and Alex lived, and that the two women in the video lived in the flat below. Two very old Van Halen … [Read more...]
VHND’s All Access Photo: Ed’s Jeep
This week’s photo is from 1979 and has never been published anywhere until now. The photo and story are by rock photographer Neil Zlozower. "When I first started hanging with the guys, they would just randomly pop over to my apartment on Fuller Street in Los Angeles to hang out with me if they were in my neighborhood. Ed had just gotten rid of his old Peugeot and got a … [Read more...]