Eddie Van Halen awarded National Guitar Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Honor

National Guitar Museum has named Eddie Van Halen as their Lifetime Achievement Award winner for 2020, and, for the first time, it was in memoriam. Every year for more than a decade, the museum has saluted a living guitarist who has contributed significantly to the legacy of the guitar - previously it was given to Roger McGuinn (2011), B.B. King (2012), Tony Iommi (2015), Glen Campbell (2016) and Bonnie Raitt (2017). The guidelines state that the person whose talents had an effect on guitar playing, and whose career inspired and influenced other guitar players, Blabbermouth reports.