Alex Van Halen called Sammy Hagar ‘a complete idiot’ in a Brazilian magazine interview about the books their old bandmates wrote. Hagar’s answer arrived in an Instagram comment section, and it asked for the feud to end.
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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.
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.