Brothers -- Alex Van Halen

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read—Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family friendship music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate. Told with acclaimed New Yorker writer Ariel Levy Brothers is seventy-year-old drummer Alex Van Halen’s love letter to his younger brother Edward (Maybe “Ed ” but never “Eddie”) written while still mourning his untimely death. In his rough yet sweet voice Alex recounts the brothers’ childhood first in the Netherlands and then in working class Pasadena California with an itinerant musician father and a very proper Indonesian-born mother—the kind of mom who admonished her boys to “always wear a suit” no matter how famous they became—a woman who wa