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Van Halen is a hard rock band founded in 1972. They are signed to Interscope Records. Key albums include 1984, Van Halen, and Women and Children First. Their latest album is A Different Kind of Truth (2012). They have won multiple Grammy Awards and have sold over 80 million albums worldwide.

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Van Halen

Van Halen engineer reveals band were “disappointed” with debut LP: “It’s not what they had in their mind when they came in to do the record”

Bill Maher and Van Halen split image

Watch Bill Hader do a hilariously uncanny impression of Eddie and Alex Van Halen

Wolfgang Van Halen Performing Live

“I’d much rather fail on my own than succeed heartlessly by playing Panama”: Why Wolfgang Van Halen won’t be covering Van Halen songs anymore

Eddie Van Halen

“He wasn’t even gonna show it to me”: Ted Templeman recalls how Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption solo started as a warm-up exercise

Eddie Van Halen on stage in 1984 (left), and Doug Aldrich on stage playing a Les Paul (right)

“I immediately made a mistake”: Doug Aldrich on the pressure of playing in front of Eddie Van Halen

Wolfgang Van Halen on stage, he's singing into a mic and playing guitar

“I really don’t appreciate when artists pass and you see their families release everything”: WVH on why he won’t put out unreleased Van Halen songs

Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen’s 9-minute solo at Monsters of Rock 1984 available to watch online for the first time ever

Wolfgang Van Halen

“I feel like I had to up it a little bit more, ’cause now people would expect that from me”: Wolfgang Van Halen says playing his dad’s solos at Taylor Hawkins tribute shows changed his own music

Wolfgang Van Halen on stage

“It was the only thing my dad actually sat down to teach me”: Wolfgang Van Halen talks learning drums before he picked up the guitar

Black and white photos of Glenn Hughes performing in the mid 70s

Glenn Hughes says he was nearly asked to sing for Van Halen

Wolfgang Van Halen

“If there was going to be one time to do it, it was that time”: Wolfgang Van Halen says he won’t play Van Halen songs anymore following Taylor Hawkins tribute shows

Wolfgang Van Halen

Wolfgang Van Halen was so nervous for Taylor Hawkins tribute shows he had to change string gauge

Van Halen engineer reveals band were “disappointed” with debut LP: “It’s not what they had in their mind when they came in to do the record”

Van Halen

Watch Bill Hader do a hilariously uncanny impression of Eddie and Alex Van Halen

Bill Maher and Van Halen split image

“I’d much rather fail on my own than succeed heartlessly by playing Panama”: Why Wolfgang Van Halen won’t be covering Van Halen songs anymore

Wolfgang Van Halen Performing Live

“He wasn’t even gonna show it to me”: Ted Templeman recalls how Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption solo started as a warm-up exercise

Eddie Van Halen

“I immediately made a mistake”: Doug Aldrich on the pressure of playing in front of Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen on stage in 1984 (left), and Doug Aldrich on stage playing a Les Paul (right)

“I really don’t appreciate when artists pass and you see their families release everything”: WVH on why he won’t put out unreleased Van Halen songs

Wolfgang Van Halen on stage, he's singing into a mic and playing guitar

Eddie Van Halen’s 9-minute solo at Monsters of Rock 1984 available to watch online for the first time ever

Eddie Van Halen

“I feel like I had to up it a little bit more, ’cause now people would expect that from me”: Wolfgang Van Halen says playing his dad’s solos at Taylor Hawkins tribute shows changed his own music

Wolfgang Van Halen

“It was the only thing my dad actually sat down to teach me”: Wolfgang Van Halen talks learning drums before he picked up the guitar

Wolfgang Van Halen on stage

Glenn Hughes says he was nearly asked to sing for Van Halen

Black and white photos of Glenn Hughes performing in the mid 70s

“If there was going to be one time to do it, it was that time”: Wolfgang Van Halen says he won’t play Van Halen songs anymore following Taylor Hawkins tribute shows

Wolfgang Van Halen

Wolfgang Van Halen was so nervous for Taylor Hawkins tribute shows he had to change string gauge

Wolfgang Van Halen

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