Sammy Hagar said he’d once discussed writing a Van Halen song with Eddie Van Halen on the cello. The singer said it was just ...

It feels like piling on to place the opening track from the much-maligned Van Halen III here, but it has to be done. We're combining the instrumental "Neworld" with "Without You" ...

Joe Satriani admits he needed some help when it came to figuring out Eddie Van Halen’s distinctive guitar riffs. Across 2024 and into 2025, Satriani has teamed with Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony for ...

Rick Derringer, the guitarist, songwriter and producer who wrote or contributed to a body of hits spanning decades, died on ...

Mr. Derringer provided the song’s pyrotechnic guitar solo, echoing Eddie Van Halen’s playing on “Beat It,” although ... of the R & B song “Fever,” which reached the Billboard Top 10, and Ritchie ...

The clavinet was a fresh and distinctive sound, and its most iconic recorded moment was on Superstition, a song written and ...

Counting down the ten greatest covers of The Kinks, the group that typified the sounds of the swinging sixties thanks to the songwriting genius of Ray Davies.

AOR might have come truly blossoming into platinum-tinged life in the 1980s, but the genre had been holding lighters aloft ...

George Danahy, guitarist Peter Trainor, bassist Jacob Babcock, drummer Bryce Maher — were still working on music degrees at ...

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