American guitarist Eddie van Halen of the band Van Halen died Tuesday morning in Santa Monica, California. His son Wolf announced that on Twitter on Tuesday night. Van Halen, born in Amsterdam, suffered from throat cancer for quite some time. He was 65 years old.

Eddie van Halen and his brother Alex founded the legendary hard rock band in 1972, which had their last name and was extremely successful worldwide in the eighties. By far their biggest hit was Jump. The album on which it appeared, 1984, was sold 17 million times in the United States alone in the same year.

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RIP Eddie van Halen