Eddie Van Halen

"Hey Ed I'm gonna miss you," reads the note included with the song. "See you on the other side..."

Singer was contemplating leaving Journey at the same time Van Halen split with David Lee Roth.

Singer said his ex-bandmate had practically been waiting for him to call in the last few months of the guitarist's life.

The Who guitarist recommended Eddie Van Halen, who played solo on groundbreaking hit single.

Guitarist dies after "a long and arduous" battle with cancer.

Sammy Hagar isn't the only Van Halen alumnus who has a hard time driving under the speed limit.

He was a guitar god with one of rock's fastest-rising young bands and she was a sitcom star with a squeaky-clean image.