Of course, in April 1981, guitar god Eddie Van Halen, then 26, and prime-time TV sweetheart Valerie Bertinelli were anything but your run-of-the mill couple. They finished each other’s sentences and knew what the other wanted,” Bob Daitz, who road-managed Van Halen after Monk, told The Post. He picked up the guitar early and was only 17 when he formed Van Halen along with his drummer-brother Alex, bassist Mark Stone (later to be replaced by Michael Anthony) and singer David Lee Roth. “A famous story Eddie told about his acclimation to alcohol was that [as a kid] he got bit on the hand by a German shepherd and was bleeding. The two teamed up in Van Halen in 2013, with Eddie and Valerie’s son taking over bass duties.

Source: The Star October 10, 2020 16:41 UTC