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Golden Earring

Golden Earring is the best known and internationally most succesful rock band to come out of The Netherlands. Their most famous song are the international hits 'Twilight Zone', 'When the Lady Smiles' and 'Radar Love'. Founded in 1961, Golden Earring has been active for nearly 50 years non-stop. The current line-up has been together since 1970, which makes Golden Earring the world’s longest surviving rock band, having been formed a year before The Rolling Stones. In 1961 George Kooymans (age 13) and his neighbour Rinus Gerritsen formed The Tornados in their home tow ...read more

Golden Earring is the best known and internationally most succesful rock band to come out of The Netherlands. Their most famous song are the international hits 'Twilight Zone', 'When the Lady Smiles' and 'Radar Love'. Founded in 1961, Golden Earring has been active for nearly 50 years non-stop. The current line-up has been together since 1970, which makes Golden Earring the world’s longest surviving rock band, having been formed a year before The Rolling Stones. In 1961 George Kooymans (age 13) and his neighbour Rinus Gerritsen formed The Tornados in their home town of The Hague. The band’s first line-up mainly played The Shadows covers. In 1963, as the band found out that there was an older British band called The Tornados, they decided to change their name into The Golden Earrings (after a Peggy Lee song). The band recorded four albums and had twelve hit singles in The Netherlands between 1965 and 1969. The band’s international career started to take off in 1969, the year of their first U.S. tour and also the year in which the band name was changed into Golden Earring. A year later, in 1970, a new dummer was recruited. The new line-up was the line-up that is still active today: Barry Hay (lead vocals/guitar/flute), George Kooymans (guitar/vocals), Cesar Zuiderwijk (drums) and Rinus Gerritsen (bass/harmonica/keyboards). « hide

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LPs
Tits 'n Ass
05/22/2012

3.7
12 Votes
Millbrook U.S.A.
2003

4.8
5 Votes
Paradise in Distress
1999

4.6
7 Votes
Love Sweat
1995

3.8
3 Votes
Face It
1994

4.5
4 Votes
Bloody Buccaneers
1991

4.4
6 Votes
Keeper of the Flame
1989

3
2 Votes
The Hole
1986

3.5
2 Votes
N.E.W.S.
1984

3.7
6 Votes
Cut
1982

3.7
18 Votes
Prisoner of the Night
1980

4.1
6 Votes
No Promises...No Debts
1979

4
4 Votes
Grab It for a Second
1978

3.9
7 Votes
Contraband
1976

3.9
8 Votes
To the Hilt
1976

4.1
10 Votes
Switch
1974

3.8
15 Votes
Moontan
1973

4
52 Votes
Together
1972

4
14 Votes
Seven Tears
1971

4
17 Votes
Golden Earring
1970

4.1
25 Votes
Eight Miles High
1969

4.1
16 Votes
On the Double
1969

3.8
6 Votes
Miracle Mirror
1968

4
10 Votes
Winter-Harvest
1967

3.3
6 Votes
Just Earrings
1965

2.6
6 Votes
EPs
The Hague
2015

Live Albums
Live in Ahoy
2006

Naked III
2005

Last Blast of the Century
2000

Naked II
1997

2.5
1 Votes
The Naked Truth
1992

2.3
2 Votes
Something Heavy Going Down
1984

3
1 Votes
2nd Live
1981

Live
1977

3.9
6 Votes
Compilations
Collected
2009

4
1 Votes
The Continuing Story of Radar Love
1989

3
1 Votes
The Best Of Golden Earring
1973

3.8
2 Votes

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