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 ...

(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.

He said, for those reasons, she viewed Van Halen’s music as a "disgrace" her entire life. In 2021, Alex told Modern Drummer he quit drinking in 1986 after his father, who was also an alcoholic ...

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 ...

His father gave him a shot of vodka and a cigarette to ease his nerves, and that started Van Halen on a near lifetime of drinking. The 57-year-old Van Halen also talked about the struggle to get ...

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 ...

(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.