Sammy Hagar Shares Song He Wrote In A Dream With Eddie Van Halen, Speculates Why Alex Van Halen Hasn’t Spoken To Him In 21 Years

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 09: Musician Sammy Hagar attends the launch for Santo Mezquila at Delilah on February 9, 2017 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Santo Mezquila)

Former Van Halen singer and tequila-heist victim Sammy Hagar recently released “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight.,” a new single that he says he co-wrote with his former bandmate Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen passed away in 2020, and this is not a leftover, unrecorded track from Hagar’s time in Van Halen. Insted, Hagar tells Rolling Stone that Eddie appeared to him in a dream and they wrote the song together: “This was 100% a communication from the beyond.”