There's no great secret about what "Black and Blue," the first single from Van Halen's 1988 OU812 album, is about. "Oh, yeah, that's sex - you don't need to be a brain surgeon to figure that out ...

AFTER HIS BROTHER DIED, Alex Van ... black beaded bracelet on his left wrist. His cropped hair is tucked under a plain black baseball cap that matches a new-looking black T-shirt; his greenish ...

We have the power of the mighty Van Halen to thank for that ... which was not a bad move considering how Back In Black had already become the best-selling hard rock album of all-time.

Fans of iconic rock band Van ... to Van Halen. Talking to Howard Stern David confirmed that they had also considered the name Rat Salad which was the name of an instrumental track on Black ...

Wolfgang Van Halen is a married man ... wore a custom three-piece black suit as his mother walked him down the aisle to a song that Eddie wrote for him. “The song that my father had written ...

And among the bands that played the Arena in 1981 were AC/DC and Van Halen. Editor's note: This story was adapted from a Green Sheet article about the Black and Blue concert published in 2016.

“That was inspired by AC/DC’s ‘Back in Black,’” said Van Halen in 2014. “I was grooving on that beat. Although I think that ‘Drop Dead Legs’ is slower. Whatever I listen to somehow ...

Kiss' Gene Simmons recently gave an interview to Classic Rock where discusses the early days of Van Halen and how exceptional they were as a band—particularly guitarist Eddie Van Halen and ...

[Ex-Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony] & i will keep it live, and alive.” The Red Rocker’s post also features a black-and-white photo of him with Eddie smiling and playing guitars together ...