Wolf Van Halen wrote a moving tribute to his late father, Eddie, to commemorate what the rocker’s 66th birthday would be Tuesday.
“Happy 66th Birthday, Pop,” Wolf suggested the heartfelt tweet. “I wish I could give you the biggest hug and celebrate it with you. I love you very much and it misses you. I do not even know how to put it into words.”
“I did my best to keep it together, but g ——- t it’s really hard to be here without you,” Wolf (29) continues.
Wolf then follows up with a second tweet which reads: “There has not passed a second where you were not yet in my heart, and today it will be no different.”
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“Love and miss you out of words, Pop ❤,” Wolf concluded.
The two tweets were accompanied by candid home videos from 1994. The first video features Eddie capturing Wolf playfully in his t-shirt, while the second video ‘Wolfie and daddy’ hangs on Christmas Eve.
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Eddie Van Halen, best known for his innovative tapping, virtuoso guitar technique and his impeccable fragmentation in Van Halen, died in October at the age of 65.
Wolf Van Halen, left, wrote a moving tribute to his late father, Eddie Van Halen, to commemorate what the rocker’s 66th birthday would be Tuesday. Eddie Van Halen passed away at the age of 65 in October.
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Van Halen told Billboard magazine in 2015 that he had removed one-third of his tongue due to cancer that had also spread to his esophagus.
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“I used metal picks – that’s copper and brass – that I always kept in my mouth, exactly where I got tongue cancer,” he said at the time. “Plus, I basically live in a recording studio that is filled with electromagnetic energy. So that’s one theory. I mean, I smoked and did a lot of drugs and a lot of everything. But at the same time, my lungs are completely clear. It’s just my own. theory, but the doctors say it is possible. ‘