They met backstage in Shreveport in August 1980 and married eight months later. What the Van Halen-Bertinelli marriage survived, what it couldn’t, and why it never really ended.
Browsing: Eddie Van Halen
Footage filmed in the final days of Les Paul’s Mahwah, New Jersey home and workshop has surfaced after the property was sold for a reported $990,000 and torn down. His son says the family was shut out; the Les Paul Foundation says the legacy was never confined to one building.
An empty chair for Eddie, a borrowed necklace from Valerie, and a walk down the aisle to ‘316’ – the details that made Wolfgang Van Halen’s 2023 wedding a quiet masterpiece of family love.
Eddie Van Halen wrote ‘316’ for the baby in his arms; that baby grew up to spend 13 years on Van Halen’s stage and honour his father with a number-one song. The full-circle story of rock’s warmest father-son legacy.