Do you remember the scene in Back to the Future when the protagonist, Marty McFly, sneaks into his dad's room (who is then just a teenager) wearing a hazmat suit? McFly blasts his father awake, according to Vulture, with some chaotic (but somehow still gorgeous) guitar noise that comes from a cassette. When McFly's dad starts wailing (who wouldn't after getting woken up in such a way?) McFly says, "Silence earthling!" But it was when McFly first puts the cassette tape into a walkman that viewers can get a quick glimpse of the writing on the sticker. It reads: Edward Van Halen. That's why some fans were left wondered if the guitar noise was actually by Van Halen.

In 2012, TMZ got an answer from Van Halen himself. When asked if he had been the one behind the guitar, the musician answered in the affirmative and said he was "just playing a bunch of noise," as if casually brushing it off. 

Well, "just a bunch of noise" never sounded so good!

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