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“Who’s gonna know if I play on this kid’s record?” Eddie Van Halen explains how he broke a band policy to shred on Michael Jackson’s ”Beat It” — and why he didn’t earn a penny for his iconic guitar solo

Van Halen revealed his very practical reason for ignoring the rule against performing on other artist’s recordings

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