Q&A: Nancy Wilson on Eddie Van Halen and her 1st solo album

When Nancy Wilson friended Eddie Van Halen, she learned the famed musician never played acoustic guitar

NEW YORK -- When Nancy Wilson friended Eddie Van Halen, she learned the famed musician never played acoustic guitar. So she gifted him one. Wilson said Van Halen called her the next morning to say he stayed up all night and penned a song with it. “It just broke my heart,” Wilson said. After the guitar virtuoso succumbed to cancer last year, Wilson thought it was fitting to honor him on her new album. “4 Edward,” inspired by that first song he played for her on acoustic guitar, is the closing track on Wilson's first solo album “You and Me," released Friday.