Five years ago today, one of the most important and influential guitarists in rock and roll history died at the age of 65.

Sounds from the 1980s appear in modern pop songs all the time. Everyone from Lady Gaga to Taylor Swift has made hits with the ...

Dropped amid a shifting rock climate, Van Halen penned a number that attempted to reach for a sentiment beyond partying hard.

Eddie Van Halen, the pioneering guitar player whose hard-rocking band emerged from the Sunset Strip music scene in Los Angeles in the early 1970s to stand at the top of rock 'n' roll for a decade, ...

One of the most hard-driving rock songs of the 1980s about fast cars and fast women is Van Halen's 1984 hit "Panama." The song has a bit of a tale that made it stand out when we compiled our summer ...

Eddie Van Halen was always at home on the guitar, but he knew a sense of rhythm by starting on the drums before anything else.