AFTER HIS BROTHER DIED, Alex Van Halen fell apart. He can prove it. There’s photographic evidence right here on his phone, which also happens to be a repository of unheard, unfinished Van Halen songs.

If rock music history has taught musicians anything, it is this: Don’t start a band with your sibling. Just ask Oasis co-founders Liam and Noel Gallagher, whose well-documented mutual enmity makes ...

When guitarist Eddie Van Halen died of cancer in 2020, his older brother Alex was overwhelmed by grief. In the new memoir, Brothers, Alex looks back on his relationship with Eddie and the decades they ...

The world knew him as Eddie Van Halen, guitarist extraordinaire. But to Alex Van Halen, he was Edward, maybe Ed, but never Eddie. He was also a best friend, the sensitive soul who “couldn’t filter out ...

'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 ...