Back in the early ’80s, David Lee Roth did not seem to care much for new wave music. His line about Elvis Costello — that critics like Costello because most of them look like him — is the kind of thing that haunts people in my profession to this day. At the time, Diamond Dave was Van Halen’s wildman lead s...

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On Wednesday, Alex Van Halen announced his memoir Brothers slated for publication this fall via Harper. The 384-page book is an “open and intimate account” of his life with Eddie, who died of cancer in 2020. It was written with New Yorker writer Ariel Levy.