Ten days after Alex Van Halen called him a complete idiot, Sammy Hagar has issued a public challenge to his former bandmate: explain what the problem actually is. At stake is whether the Van Hagar years count at all.
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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.
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.
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.
David Lee Roth and Madonna were briefly linked in the mid-’80s. Here’s what’s actually known, plus why it fit both of their peak personas.
Fans have whispered for decades. Here’s what credible sources say (and don’t say) about David Lee Roth and MTV VJ Martha Quinn.
David Lee Roth’s mid-song splits and wild acrobatics turned Van Halen gigs into spectacle. Here’s how the moves worked and why they mattered.
Most rock singers get one era. Sammy Hagar pulled off multiple: solo, Montrose, Van Halen, and beyond. Here’s how he did it.
How Van Halen turned a Los Angeles high school into MTV’s most notorious classroom, with bikini teachers, censorship scares and hidden gags.