Faber & Faber will publish a biography of Eddie Van Halen called “Eruption” by author Paul Brannigan in 2015.
The book promises to explore how it was the incendiary playing of the young guitarist which launched the band Van Halen into the consciousness of America in early 1978, and transformed the musical landscape. Offering the first real examination of a true musical icon, it will also turn up the volume on a life lived in popular music's fast lane.
Brannigan is the author of the bestselling biography of Dave Grohl, “This is a Call”, and co-author of the forthcoming two-volume biography of Metallica, “Birth School Metallica Death.”
“Eruption” will be published by Da Capo in the U.S.
Van Halen wrapped up their “A Different Kind Of Truth” tour in July.
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