Why 'A Different Kind of Truth' Will Be Van Halen's Last Album
1984 was a “long process” to bring to fruition. The band’s 2007 reunion tour with Roth in itself was quite a revelation. There had been a couple of songs recorded in 1996 for their first greatest hits compilation, the renewed union between the charismatic frontman and the other members of Van Halen quickly fizzled after an appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards that same year didn't go well. A decade later, Eddie Van Halen was sober and in better spirits. “I hadn’t seen him that happy in a while,” Wolfgang later told the Washington Post, “and being fresh sober, he was like an...