Van Halen

A swear word forced singer and guitarist's first live appearance off the air.

"We were trying to hold Gene in check," Paul Stanley says in new Eddie Van Halen biography.

For a while, if a track appeared on one of their LPs, you could be confident it would also turn up onstage.

"The first night [of filming] management told Eddie [Van Halen] he had to be completely sober because there was so much money on this shoot.”

Band revealed "great chemistry" while battling technical issues during 1986 concerts recorded for home-video release.

“There were two songs that we actually finished,” the singer admits to UCR, adding that Eddie Van Halen left behind a million "jams and pieces."

Singer and guitarist reconnected a few months before Van Halen's death.

This wasn't Sammy Hagar's first song about aliens, but it was by far the biggest.

It may seem like one of the band's more straightforward songs, but the details make all the difference.

Eddie Van Halen once suggested they had sketched out as many as 35 demos during the original sessions.

Claudio Zampolli played a crucial role in getting singer to join Van Halen.

They'd just debuted a new lead singer when the old one released his first solo album.