Alex Van Halen has announced a new memoir, Brothers, in which the 70-year-old Van Halen drummer offers an “open and intimate account” of his life with his younger brother Eddie Van Halen, who died of cancer in 2020.
Written with New Yorker writer Ariel Levy, Brothers recounts the remarkable story of two brothers who moved from the Netherlands to Pasadena, CA “with an itinerant musician father and a very proper Indonesian-born mother-the kind of mom who admonished her boys to ‘always wear a suit,’” according to the blurb, and went on to form one of the most influential bands in the history of rock and roll.
“I was with him from day one,” Alex writes of his brother, whom he calls Edward or sometimes Ed, but never Eddie. “We shared the experience of coming to this country and figuring out how to fit in. We shared a record player, an 800-square-foot house, a mom and dad, and a work ethic. Later, we shared the back of a tour bus, alcoholism, the experience of becoming famous, of becoming fathers and uncles, and of spending more hours in the studio than I’ve spent doing anything else in this life. We shared a depth of understanding that most people can only hope to achieve in a lifetime.”
Brothers is slated for publication on October 22nd via Harper and includes never-before-seen photos from the author’s private archives. For more information and to sign up to be notified when the book becomes available to pre-order, head here.
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