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Podcast: The Johnny Beane Podcast
Episode: Exclusively Van Halen: Brothers NPR Fresh Air #ALEXVANHALEN 10/29/24
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Undone by the loss of his brother Eddie, Alex Van Halen looks back in a new memoir
When guitarist Eddie Van Halen died of cancer in 2020, his older brother Alex was overwhelmed by grief. Only 20 months apart in age, they had grown up together as "a yin and yang ... the two halves of a whole," Alex says.
Raised by a Dutch father and an Indonesian mother, the brothers immigrated to the U.S. from the Netherlands when Alex was 8 and Eddie was 6. In California, they learned to play music — mostly classical and military ma...