Released on Van Halen's 1984 - released that same year - Jump became the band's sole number 1 hit on the US Billboard 100.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Jas Obrecht’s chance encounter with a then-unknown Eddie Van Halen on July 23, 1978, resulted in ...

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Jimmy Page wasn’t just flying by the seat of his pants when he quickly formed Led Zeppelin. Page had a plan for the debut album, and he executed it brilliantly. His intricately planned approach to the ...

Michael Jackson‘s “Beat It” famously includes a guitar solo from Van Halen’s Eddie Van Halen. An engineer who worked with Jackson said the solo was originally unbearably loud. Subsequently, he decided ...

Eddie Van Halen, a guitar virtuoso whose pyrotechnic riffs and solos expanded the vocabulary of hard rock, inspired legions of headbanging imitators and propelled his band Van Halen to four turbulent ...

"Take a Bow," which will be featured on Mammoth WVH's upcoming album, is out now Scott Legato/Getty Wolfgang Van Halen is paying tribute to dad Eddie Van Halen in his band's newest album. In Mammoth ...

Wolfgang Van Halen dazzled viewers with his guitar chops at last year's Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts, ripping through Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher," "On Fire" and "Panama" with the kind of ease and ...