Guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen died on Tuesday aged 65 | World news: breaking news and current events World Business Science Health Life Sports Tech Entertainment Sign in Welcome!Log into your account your username your password Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password your email Search Thursday, December 16, 2021 Sign in Welcome! Log into your account your username your password Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password your email A password will be e-mailed to you. World news: breaking news and current events World Business Science Health Life Sports Tech Entertainment Home Entertainment Music Guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen died on Tuesday aged 65 Entertainment Music Guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen died on Tuesday aged 65 By Robert Woodward - October 7, 2020 0 9 Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose group is considered one of the greatest rock bands of all time, died on Tuesday following a long battle with cancer, aged 65. “He was the best father I could ever ask for,” his son said. Van Halen, born in 1955 in Amsterdam and raised in Pasadena, California, formed the band along with his brother Alex, bassist Michael Anthony and singer David Lee Roth in 1974, after the group met while attending Pasadena City College. It quickly earned a fan base. The group had multi-platinum albums in five consecutive years: Van Halen II (1979), Women and Children First (1980), Fair Warning (1981), Diver Down (1982) and finally their biggest hit, 1984.Among the group’s classics are “Jump,” “Panama,” “Runnin’ with the Devil,” and the guitar solo “Eruption.” Van Halen has sold more than 75 million albums and has more number one hits on the mainstream US rock chart than any other artist. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him the eighth best guitar player of all time, between Chuck Berry and Duane Allman. Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready told Rolling Stone that Van Halen’s playing “sounded like it came from another planet … Van Halen underwent hip surgery in 1999 and had part of his tongue removed in 2000 after being diagnosed with cancer, likely because of heavy smoking. TAGS Eddie Van Halen Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Previous articleSeveral military Pentagon staff members and commanders of US Air Force and naval operations are isolated due coronavirus Next articleA 25-year-old man after falling hundreds feet off a cliff at the Glen Canyon Overlook Robert Woodward RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR The conceptual artist Stephen Sondheim, of musical theater, died aged 91 Rapper Travis Scott and other organisers of the Astroworld Festival were sued for $750m after the deadly event A crowd stampede produced victims at the Houston music festival – Astroworld Recent Posts The Omicron Covid-19 variant is moving faster than surveillance systems can track it Several children killed in an unexpected accident at a primary school in Tasmania, Australia Amazing discovery: volcanic rocks on Mars The NYPD will have its first female police commissioner in 176-year history A massive fire broke Wednesday at Hong Kong’s World Trade Center Categories Africa Asia Autos Basketball Beyond Science Business Celebrities Companies Discoveries Earth and the Environment Economy & Trade Environment and Health Europe Fashion & Beauty Featured Features Fitness Food Global Markets Golf Health Home Innovation International Life Literary & Visual Arts Medicine Motor Sports Movies & TV Music News Nutrition Online Security Other Products Real Estate Science Soccer Space & Astronomy Tennis Theatre Travel USA Video World EDITOR PICKS Time magazine has named Elon Musk as Person of the Year... December 13, 2021 A new feature on Google Earth app shows climate change effects... April 16, 2021 Golden Globe 2021 nominations February 3, 2021 POPULAR POSTS Writers December 6, 2010 Number of People Expecting Tax Refund This Year Goes Down March 25, 2013 China’s First Lady of Fashion March 27, 2013 POPULAR CATEGORY USA2603 International1836 Europe1320 Asia787 Products583 Medicine547 Space & Astronomy481 Celebrities357 Companies308 ABOUT US FOLLOW US © MORE STORIES The Twitter account and the website of Indian PM Narendra Modi... James Prewitt - September 3, 2020 0 President Trump cancelled the nuclear summit with Kim Jong Un Jerry Seward - May 24, 2018 0 An aircraft of Sydney Seaplanes crashed Sunday in Jerusalem Bay Robert Woodward - December 31, 2017 0 Strange methods to combat stress at work actually used in the... Jerry Seward - December 14, 2015 0 South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma, asked to resign Robert Woodward - February 13, 2018 0 U.S. surveillance of Islamic State is “going dark” Jed E. Robinson - November 15, 2015 0