PhotosEddie Van Halen dies at 65 Eddie Van Halen dies at 65 7 October 2020 FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmailPrintViber Eddie Van Halen, the pioneering guitar player whose hard-rocking band emerged from the Sunset Strip music scene in Los Angeles in the early 1970s to stand at the top of rock ‘n’ roll for a decade, died of cancer on Tuesday. He was 65. MORE PHOTOS A Taliban helicopter takes off after bringing aid to the site of an earthquake Funeral of a Ukrainian serviceman in Kyiv Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues Dams and taps run dry amid historic water shortages in northern Mexico