The six-minute piece - subtitled "Between Us Two" - had been teased ahead of its inclusion in the audiobook version of Alex's memoir Brothers, which is published today.

In a recent interview with the Guardian, Alex said he hadn't fully dealt with Eddie's passing in 2020 after a cancer battle. "In fact, I'll probably be dealing with it until my dying day," he reflected.

He added that his younger brother might still be alive had he paid attention to his family. "This is probably a spiritually, psychically wrong thing to say; but had Ed listened to our dad, he'd still be here. Instead, he did everything he could to fuck that up ... We owe everything to [Dad]. He was the icon, the one who we respected."

Citing the example of Eddie's way of dealing with his initial tongue cancer diagnosis in 2000, saying: "[R]ather than going to an oncologist, he went to an oral surgeon, who used a blade that could fell a tree to cut part of his tongue out. Ed, what the fuck are you thinking?"

He also reported that their mom had pushed them to learn classical music as a way of fitting in as immigrants to America - and she'd always regarded Van Halen's music as "a disgrace."