Eddie Van Halen honored at the Billboard Music Awards

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A lone Kramer Frankenstrat stood on stage at this year's ceremony in tribute to the late guitar legend

Eddie Van Halen tribute at the Billboard Music Awards 2020
(Image credit: Kevin Winter/BBMA2020/Getty Images for dcp / Ron Pownall/Getty Images)

The 2020 Billboard Music Awards took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on October 14, and during the broadcast, the show took a moment to pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen, who passed away at the age of 65 on October 6.

After playing a clip of Van Halen performing Panama at the Billboard Awards in 2015, the camera panned to a shot of Eddie's Kramer Frankenstrat electric guitar onstage.

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Richard Bienstock
Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.