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Watch unseen footage of late guitar icons Eddie Van Halen and Leslie West backstage and jamming
By Fraser Lewry published
The extraordinary footage comes from a Los Angeles club show in 2002

Van Halen's Michael Anthony recalls watching Ozzy Osbourne set Bill Ward on fire: "He didn't even flinch. He just kept drinking his beer"
By Liz Scarlett published
Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony looks back on the time his band toured with Black Sabbath, as well as the sometimes dangerous shenanigans that took place on the road

The story of the historic day heavy metal killed new wave
By Joe Daly published
It's memorial weekend in 1983, and the US Festival is about to change the musical landscape forever, with a little help from Van Halen

Tony Iommi remembers co-writing a Black Sabbath song with Eddie Van Halen: “I said, ‘You’re playing that wrong’”
By Matt Mills published
Van Halen’s record label stopped him from getting a Black Sabbath songwriting credit in 1994

The first and last lyrics sung on record by 20 legendary bands
By Dave Everley published
From The Beatles and Bowie to Freddie Mercury and Kurt Cobain and, these are the first and last lines sung on record by rock’s biggest bands

Eddie Van Halen was a Meshuggah fan, according to son Wolfgang: “He said, ‘The drummer better be paid the most!’”
By Matt Mills published
Mammoth WVH leader Wolfgang Van Halen has revealed his dad was an admirer of tech-metal’s most brutal behemoths

Watch Nina DiGregorio's jaw-dropping version of Van Halen's Eruption
By Fraser Lewry published
Nina DiGregorio spent years preparing for this moment

“The best frontman I ever saw. Nobody else came close”: The day David Lee Roth turned in the performance of a lifetime
By Paul Elliott published
With a heavyweight line-up including Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Van Halen, Mötley Crüe and more, Monsters Of Rock 1984 is still revered in festival folklore

"I guess I'm honoured he even thinks about me as much as he seems to": Wolfgang Van Halen responds to David Lee Roth's bizarre personal attacks with polite resignation
By Fraser Lewry published
Wolfgang Van Halen sounds prepared for a future in which he's a target for the occasional David Lee Roth outburst
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