You'd expect the first song written for any Van Halen album to be a blazing rocker. Not so with 1988's OU812. "'We want you to hear something,' Eddie said. They played me the keyboard part for 'When ...
Straight outta Pasadena, Van Halen were America's ultimate party band, monstrously entertaining and gleefully ambitious, a classically Californian quartet formed by two Dutch immigrants. They also ...