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Van Halen died Tuesday and has suffered from throat cancer in recent years. Informs, among others, the American TMC.
According to the website, he died at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California, after his condition suddenly worsened in recent days.
According to the website, he died in the hospital with his wife Janie by his side. Also present were his son Wolfgang and his brother Alex.
Eddie Van Halen is best remembered for his role in the band Van Halen, which he formed with his brother Alex Van Halen, Mark Stone and David Lee Roth in 1972. They had a long list of hits, such as “Jump”, “Panama” and ” Running with the devil.
He was known for his special playing style with a lot of use of so-called tapping, where the strings are struck directly on the guitar fretboard. In 2012, he was named number one in Guitar Worlds magazine’s Readers Ranking of the 100 Greatest Guitarists in History.
Eddie van Halen was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1955, and his real name was Edward Lodewijk van Halen. The family moved to the United States in 1962 and settled in Pasadena, California, where they began their musical career in the 1970s.
