Eddie Van Halen, guitar virtuoso with a shimmering sound, dies at 65
Eddie Van Halen, guitar virtuoso with a shimmering sound, dies at 65
Eddie Van Halen, a guitar virtuoso whose pyrotechnic riffs and solos expanded the vocabulary of hard rock, inspired legions of headbanging imitators and propelled his band Van Halen to four turbulent decades of stadium-rock stardom, died Oct. 6. He was 65.
