Eddie Van Halen's guitar riff is the centerpiece of Michael Jackson's 1982 number-one hit "Beat It." But Eddie Van Halen first thought the call to collaborate was a prank call from Quincy Jones. Not only did Eddie Van Halen contribute guitar to "Beat It," but he arranged it as well.
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Jackie Gleason was one of the biggest stars of the 20th century, but underneath his jocular, smiling public demeanor, he dealt with considerable inner turmoil.
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Maybe, flying in the face of the laws that hold the universe together, the one true example of a Marshmallow-Person-Who-Takes-Himself-Too-Seriously broke through to this realm of imperfect substance. Maybe that's how we got Steven Seagal.
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Eddie Van Halen, who died on October 6, 2020, still wanted to tour with his legendary rock band Van Halen but was sidelined by a cancer diagnosis. Eddie Van Halen's last performance was on a 2015 tour in Los Angeles, where he played "Jump."
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Old Hollywood icon Rock Hudson was best known for his dashing looks and roles in Giant and All That Heaven Allows. Behind Rock Hudson's fame was a tragic childhood, a manipulative Hollywood agent, and a struggle with his gay identity. Hudson was the first major celebrity to die with AIDs in 1985.
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In the late 1980s, the fledgling feud between the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More started as nothing more than a friendly rivalry. The two bands were pioneers of the funk-metal genre, with Faith No More even occasionally opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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While being a frontman for one of the world's most popular bands of all time might be stressful enough, it's hard to imagine Queen's Freddie Mercury performing with his signature show-stopping stage presence along with strumming a guitar onstage, all at once. Mercury rarely played guitar onstage.
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Jane's Addiction paved the way for the "alternative rock" genre we know today, beginning in 1985 with humble roots that the likes of The Pixies, Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins would later embrace. Despite a string of successful singles, the band had tensions running high between members.
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The plane that crashed into a lake near Madison, Wisconsin, carried all but one of the members of the Bar-Kays, a soul ensemble from Memphis, Tennessee, who had done over a hundred shows with Redding on that tour. Only one member of the band, Ben Cauley, made it away from the wreckage with his life.
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The highly-publicized feud between Brian Wilson and Mike Love of the Beach Boys first started in 1966, when Love purportedly criticized their upcoming album Pet Sounds. While Brian Wilson and Mike Love are wildly successful musicians, ego, lawsuits, and creative disputes are at the center of a feud.
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They also sued Stapp for $1.2 million dollars in 2018, claiming he refused to tour with them to promote their 2017 album The Madness. Brother bandleaders Johnathan and Vincent Votta said they advanced Stapp $200,000 to sing, but Stapp only showed up for 18 of the 40 gigs they'd booked.
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Tensions ramped up between the two during the making of the 1980 album Women and Children First, particularly when it came to shooting the album cover and inset photos with provocative fashion photographer Helmut Newton.
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There is no stereotypical band origin story here in which friends came together for the love of the music; according to Van Halen News Desk, Roth was only invited to join the band because, unlike Eddie and drummer Alex Van Halen, he came from money and had his own sound system.
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Let's take a look at where some of the heroes (and people who think they're heroes) wind up, what that means for each group, and what it means for the world of The Boys.
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he music from the Edward Van Halen tape sure sounds like the work of Eddie Van Halen, but was it actually him? In 2012, TMZ finally got the answer to this question once and for all when a reporter/Van Halen fan accosted Eddie Van Halen on an escalator to ask him about the alleged cameo.
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There was one trade that, although it definitely fits the criterion of being positively filthy, Rowe didn't feel he could cover in his usual comedic fashion: crime scene cleanup. "It's a great dirty job, but it's hard to be lighthearted about a body left in a trunk for three days in a swamp,"
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Michael Landon was a star, popular for his roles on Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven. However, his life had some ups and downs.
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His final Instagram birthday post to Wolfgang featured a photo of the newborn. "The Best Day Of My Life. Happy Birthday Wolf! I Love You So Much!! Your Pop," the legendary shredder posted. As it would turn out, Eddie Van Halen's last Instagram post would be a similar message of love for his family.
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Brian May of Queen is a man of many talents. Not only is he a brilliant lyricist and an imaginative guitar player, he's also an astrophysicist. He's also managed to build a guitar all from scratch, thanks to random stuff around the house, his dad, and ingenuity. It's the Red Special.
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The X&Y cover features a Tetris game in the middle of a dark blue background. When the album was first released, MTV said people didn't understand what was going on in the album. Was Coldplay just closet Tetris fans? The band teased that there was something deeper and people started staring.
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Eddie Van Halen, an icon of rock music whose iconic guitar riffs inspired many to pick up a guitar and try for themselves, died in 2020 at the age of 65 following a brave, decade-long battle with throat cancer. Here's how these famous rock stars reacted to Eddie Van Halen's death.
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It's been a heavy year, for many reasons, but the death of music legend Eddie Van Halen, announced on October 6, 2020, is yet another sad marker of time's passage.
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Celebrity marriages often get rocky, and that shouldn't be such a surprise. To be fair, relationships require a lot of time, work, and commitment — even in the best of conditions — and things inevitably become more complex when you throw in constant publicity, tabloid gossip, tours, schedules, much less being part of Van Halen, one of the biggest bands in rock history.
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Eddie Van Halen's brother Alex is also a founding member of the rock group Van Halen. Originally trained as a classical pianist, Alex Van Halen took up drums and went on to great acclaim. Details you might not know about Alex Van Halen include a contentious lawsuit with his ex-wife.
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Legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen died on October 6, 2020, of throat cancer. The rock and roll star broke new ground in the genre, and one way he did it was with the cobbled-together guitar that he called "Frankenstein." Here's the trust about Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein guitar.
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The loss of musician Eddie Van Halen, the man once voted the Greatest Guitarist of All Time, is sad news for rock and guitar fans everywhere, and, heartbreakingly, Van Halen's wife of 11 years, stuntwoman Janie Liszewski Van Halen. Here are details you didn't know about Eddie Van Halen's wife.
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Former NBA point and shooting guard Jason Terry used to take his pregame prep seriously. First, the night before a game, he insisted on wearing the game shorts of the team he was facing to bed. But not any run-of-the-mill game shorts: he needed official NBA game shorts to find the magic he needed.
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