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Watch Nancy Wilson Perform Her Eddie Van Halen Tribute Song ‘4 Edward’
“After he passed, it hit me so hard I felt it was time to pay tribute to him,” says the Heart guitarist
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You And Me (out May 7th) is a mixture of original tunes and cover songs, like Pearl Jam’s “Daughter” and Bruce Springsteen’s “The Rising.” It wraps up with “4 Edward,” which Wilson wrote as a tribute to Eddie Van Halen.
“When Heart toured with Van Halen I asked Eddie why he never played acoustic guitar,” she writes. “His response [was] ‘I don’t have one.” I gave Eddie one of mine and he immediately wrote a song on it that stole my heart. After he passed, it hit me so hard I felt it was time to pay tribute to him.”