Chris Gill

Chris Gill

Chris is the co-author of Eruption - Conversations with Eddie Van Halen. He is a 40-year music industry veteran who started at Boardwalk Entertainment (Joan Jett, Night Ranger) and Roland US before becoming a guitar journalist in 1991. He has interviewed more than 600 artists, written more than 1,400 product reviews and contributed to Jeff Beck’s Beck 01: Hot Rods and Rock & Roll and Eric Clapton’s Six String Stories.

Articles by: Chris Gill

Van Halen backstage

"When I first played Jump for the guys nobody wanted to have anything to do with it": How Eddie Van Halen became a superstar and the real story of Van Halen's biggest-selling album

By Chris Gill published

Welcome to 1984: it was the album that would see Van Halen straddle the planet like a rock colossus, but it would also mark the end of the original line-up

Van Halen with Dace Lee Roth, posing next to a swimming pool

The 50 best Van Halen songs - the ultimate American party soundtrack

By Chris Gill, Richard Bienstock published

Eddie Van Halen was a game-changing guitar player, but it was his band's exuberant songs that gave his genius the power to soar - and here are 50 of the best