it's that influenced a generation eddie van halen died of cancer on tuesday he was 65. welcome to arts and culture van halen producer said he played with a complexity that rivaled but one thing is for sure eddie van halen changed rock n roll forever and just a moment we'll see how the music world is paying tribute 1st a look back at his career. this was the band band highlands biggest hit jump from 984. that had a distinctive style with front man david lee roth splendid buoyant take on the rock gods and eddie's iconic guitar solos.

they appeal to people from all age groups and his brother formed ben highland in the 1970 s. younger fans don't even know we have 11 other records sold with various we give the names of each one then decide which ones they want to buy. so it's not for the money because every one of the money we can go out i am all. for some both going announced the death of his father on twitter he wrote my heart is broken and i don't think i will ever fully recover from this loss i love you so much paul. van halen joined the band as its bass player in 2007 making it a real family business. down highland was born in amsterdam in 1955 but the family moved to los angeles in the early 960 s. he started life as a musician on the piano but like to switch to sam visions to the top. such profound released their 1st album in 1978 shot into the top 20 on the american

billboard charts making it one of the most successful debuts of the decade. highlands pioneering virtue or so guitar technique and him a place in ropes all the time alongside the likes of jimi hendrix and eric clapton . a band highland was the man who not only changed guitar player. forever but touched briefly overs when you came. and we're going to keep looking back at his legacy now with my colleague mike or kruger mike or how is van halen being remembered well maybe as a guitar genius as the right of the left hand of the devil yes of course in 2012 we just pull in the popular music magazine voted him. the greatest guitar

player all the time and he built his 1st guitar himself i think maybe we have a red guitar really wrecked his guitar he set some call it frankenstein i call it my baby he may not invented the 200 tapping but the fact that it and he was the must of this lightning fast technique of gravel and devil playing and introduced it to a mass audience and despite all of this and never want to play to read music but everybody remembers it like no never and by the way his 1st cherries choiceful playing rock music with the drums but one day he came home and his big brother was sitting there at the drums and he said oh my god he's playing much better than i so i'll take the guitar and the rest is history oh my gosh we're so sorry for that happened now there's been a huge and really emotional outpouring we're seeing coming in from other musicians what can you tell us about it's really overwhelming so many rock stars posted something we have just a few examples for that lenny kravitz he wrote the happen will be electric

tonight and nikki sixx from the crew said you were the most out of rock guitar and his band my david lee roth posted just one sentence what a long great trip it's been wow now singer david lee roth wasn't always with the band van halen he was on again off again the resort of turbulence. there over the years. they were. stuck all the time even when he had problems even when there were problems with a record company even when some of the members were replaced. and especially singer david lee roth's he left the band come back and left again but. eddie van halen worked rarely with other musicians but when he did it was spectacular and we have a really good example michael jackson on the song beat it we all know it he

wasn't even stratus it on the album and didn't appear in the back and here is a guitar that came here is guitar really make this song to his son. michael kroger thank you so much for coming in studio to honor the event when. and from a giant of rock n roll now to of literal giant well it was actually supposed to be an auction of impressionist and modern art except ben christie's auction house threw a giant t.-rex into the mix and big surprise it wasn't the picasso that got the highest price of that auction it was a t. rex he sold for almost $32000000.00 and then the other dinosaur near. the release of the new jurassic world film has been pushed back from next year to 2822 it's another big blow to movie theaters after hollywood had already postponed the release of other blockbusters including batman. and the way the james bond film

due to the coronavirus. well that's enough dinosaurs for this arts and culture so how about some spies well right now the show newseum in frankfurt is all about espionage the exhibition we never sleep. espionage is the stuff of great films but it's also a real part of our world now more than ever with surveillance cameras data profiling and our not so very social social media although no one calls that espionage and in the midst of all this data sharing and stealing there's a lot we never sleep at the show at museum in frankfurt features works like this one by canadian rodney graham the artist has a spine. when say artists or spies but in

a way they're models operandi sometimes functions like those of us by sometimes they become they have to almost become spies for their research like trevor paglen this photograph the u.s. national security agency by night from 30 kilometers away. just cornelia shaima from the former east germany mines her own biography and the files to east german informants compiled on that superimposing them with i want to self portraits. the exhibition gets a lot of space to be an art form. and a real spine devices like a chunk of the hidden camera. can with its own secrets even an exploding wrench it does seem like something out of the film and speaking of films hollywood

star had lamar was also an inventor who helped develop frequency hopping technology now used in encryption technology. espionage both glamorous and dangerous and today the spy business is booming with countries trying to steal each other's vaccine research. and sniffing out the secrets of life here in germany each week our reporter rachel stewart has the scoop this time she's demonstrating her strong stomach with a look at german cuisine now around 8 percent of people in germany are vegetarians but the average german eats 60 kilos of meat per year some even make meat sculptures.

yes that's a role. it's heyday back in the sixty's and seventy's but the main ingredient is still popular across its usually spread. seasons with. topped off with some. health and safety reasons it has to be eaten on the same day as. we. are just going to leave the meeting in germany is about much more than choosing between one sausage and another trip to the boat. can be a veritable adventure. alongside the full spectrum of fresh and cold there are some more intriguing. for example. translates as blood. the guessing what the main ingredient is. and you know what they.

do so. often. to spend it in a. book. but it was just like a bad. french. kids as a treat. i've lived a life. so what exactly is it. it's essentially fatty me go. round up baked into a loaf shape with a lovely brown crust in most areas of germany you can only because it contains at least 5 percent liver but very little cheese is absolutely not enough to contain liver and certainly. countries like australia america and argentina our way out in

front when it comes to meet consumption but the germans do eat twice as much meat as the global average meat is an important component in many traditional dishes and there's not much the germans take more seriously than a barbecue. pork is the nation's favorite and around half of the meat eating in germany is consumed in the sausage for germany also produces more meat than it can eat are you thinking what i'm thinking there's a big meaty elephant in the room right c c. discussion around the environmental impact of meat production is gathering pace and a few years ago a green party proposal to introduce a vegetarian canteens across the country went down like an empty be ok but around 8 percent of the population now claims to be vegetarian and the trend is even stronger among the environmentally woke younger generation. and began other. competition as.

the only dog. food in 5 euro zone. in the individual. well if not quite your appetite we've got plenty more installments of meet the germans online at d w dot com slash culture thanks for watching the next i'm. going to. get.

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