EDWARD VAN HALEN 1955-2020
In the modern world, it’s inevitable that everything is reduced to bits and bytes. Hence we’ve seen the mainstream media reduce the late Edward Van Halen’s legacy to Jump and Beat It, with the occasional bit of Eruption if we’re lucky. All rock landmarks, of course. But a partial snapshot of the man’s gargantuan talent. EVH deserves better.
It could have been very different. He may have never even picked up a guitar. Alongside older brother Alex, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen took piano lessons as a child as his parents moved the VH clan from their home in the Netherlands to California in
