Eddie Van Halen and his brother tried out the Soundgarden singer shortly before his death – and at one stage, an Ozzy Osbourne-fronted Van Halen album was also on the cards

Alex Van Halen’s memoir Brothers is out next week. To promote it, the Van Halen drummer sat down with Rolling Stone for his first interview since the death of his brother and bandmate, guitar god Eddie Van Halen.

Four decades after Eddie Van Halen worked with Michael Jackson, brother Alex Van Halen is still disappointed. “Why would you lend your talents to Michael Jackson? I just don’t f—ing get it,” Alex, 71,