Eruption: The EDDIE VAN HALEN Story Book Due Next Year

September 24, 2016, 7 years ago

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Eruption: The EDDIE VAN HALEN Story Book Due Next Year

Eruption: The Eddie Van Halen Story is a new book written by author Paul Brannigan and due for release by Da Capo Press on August 1st, 2017.

The 320-page book is described as follows:

Since their debut in 1978, Van Halen has set a high bar for the rock 'n' roll lifestyle of good times and debauchery. It created an entirely new style of post-'60s hard rock and, unlike bands with a similar sound, managed to gain cross-gender appeal.

There is an undercurrent of tragedy to the band's saga, however. Although Eddie Van Halen is a rock god, he is by all accounts hypersensitive and emotionally insecure. Living in the spotlight, his struggles have played out in public, from a battle with cancer that left him without one-third of his tongue to the break-up of his longtime marriage to Valerie Bertinelli.

With insights from Van Halen himself, Eruption reaches beyond the boundaries of a conventional rock biography to explore the cultural, political, and social contexts that shaped an icon while turning up the volume on a life lived in the fast lane.



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