However, Van Halen was something different. The powerhouse hard rock band co-founded by Alex and his brother, Eddie, sold over 70 million albums during their nearly four-decade run. It was Alex and Eddie who started the band as teenagers in their Pasadena basement,

"Dave f---in' popped a fuse!" Van Halen rockers David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen had a fraught relationship for decades, and that's what torpedoed a planned reunion tour following Eddie's death, the band's drummer Alex Van Halen,

Rock fans now know why the Van Halen reunion tour never happened. In a very candid interview with Rolling Stone, Alex Van Halen revealed that it's because David Lee Roth—the band's lead singer—refused to pay tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen.