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 mum who admonished her boys to -always wear a suit- no matter how famous they became - a woman who was both proud and practical, nonchalant about taking a doggie bag from a star-studded dinner. He also shares tales of musical politics, infighting, and plenty of bad-boy behaviour. But mostly his i
