Alex Van Halen recalled how the death of his father led him to quit drinking, saying he knew he had a “responsibility” to avoid “artificial inspiration.” Jan Van Halen, a musician himself ...

Van Halen's Michael Anthony has recalled the time ... noting how “[Ward] didn't even flinch. He just kept drinking his beer.” Not fussed by games of arson himself, Anthony took to playing ...

Eddie Van Halen struggled with addiction his entire ... he would stay in his hotel room writing music while drinking and doing cocaine. "Alcohol and cocaine were private things to me," he continued.

(Start around the 3:30 mark.) Around 2006, after stints in rehab, Van Halen wanted to get off the drinking, according to the Esquire profile. So he switched to Klonopin to handle his nerves onstage.

The Van Halen drummer's new memoir 'Brothers' is a love letter to late brother Eddie Van Halen Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Valerie Bertinelli has opened up about her ill-fated marriage to late rocker Eddie Van Halen. The “One Day at a Time” star, 64, sat down to watch her son Wolfgang Van Halen’s latest episode ...

Wolfgang Van Halen chewed out the upcoming episode about ... As an extremely shy kid Eddie started drinking alcohol at just 12 years old to calm his nerves after seeing his father drink to calm ...

His father gave it to him. Alex first quit drinking right after the 1986 death of his dad, Jan Van Halen, who, like his sons, was a gifted musician and an alcoholic. Eddie also made his first ...

drinking heavily and smoking cigarettes incessantly — overwhelmed, Alex writes, by the burden of being called the greatest guitarist on the planet. Van Halen was diagnosed with neuropathy in his ...

Mr. Van Halen sounds familiar themes. At the height of his powers, he was “drinking from the moment I got up to the moment I went to sleep.” His brother didn’t stint either on booze or drugs ...