![]() ![]() The band Van Halen (from left to right: Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony) In 1973 Alex and Eddie formed the band Van Halen, with lead singer David Lee Roth and bassist Michael Anthony. Alex and Eddie's group - called Genesis, then renamed Mammoth - was adept at playing covers of bands they liked, such as Cream, The Who, Deep Purple, and Ten Years After. ![]() Young Alex and Eddie Van Halen showed musical talent as childrenĪlex played drums, Eddie played the guitar, and by the time the youths were in high school, it was clear they would become famous. Like their father, both Alex and Eddie exhibited a talent for music, and the boys started their own band while still in elementary school. ![]() The boys were seven and eight when the family relocated to Pasadena, California and began a new life in America. Jan married Indonesian native Eugenia and the couple moved to the Netherlands, where their sons Alex and Edward were born in 19 respectively. Jan and Eugenia Van Halen met and married in Indonesia Despite the fact that Eddie and Valerie had a tempestuous marriage that ended in divorce, Valerie speaks of Eddie so lovingly that I became curious to read this book about the guitarist.Įddie Van Halen's parents Jan and Eugenia, met in the late 1940s when Jan - a Dutch musician - was working in Jakarta, Indonesia. But I recently read a memoir by actress Valerie Bertinelli, who was married to Eddie Van Halen for twenty years. I'm not a Rock & Roll aficionado and know little about bands and the music business. ![]()
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