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's-Gravenhage, Netherlands (1961 – present)

Golden Earring is the best known and internationally most succesful rock band to come out of the Netherlands.

Founded in 1961, Golden Earring has been active for 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 and other instrumental tunes.

In 1963, as the band found out that there already was a British band called The Tornados, they decided to change their name into The Golden Earrings (after a Peggy Lee song). Under the Golden Earrings moniker the band recorded four albums and had twelve hit singles in the Netherlands between 1965 and 1969, of which ten reached the Dutch Top 10.

The band’s international career modestly started to take off in 1969, the year of their psychedelic Eight Miles High album, their first tour of the U.S. and also the year in which the band name was slightly 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).
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  • freakymrq

    Where am I to go now that I've gone to far?

    Thursday evening

  • Menno75

    I uploaded a cool Golden Earring picture from 1974. Please vote for it and help making it the avatar! http://www.last.fm/music/Golden+Earring/+images/72818856

    last month

  • PunkyFunkyDucky

    Cesar Zuiderwijk rockt 'em!

    last month

  • foreigner97

    Ze waren super in Drachten:) Niks te horen van de stemproblemen: klonk precies hetzelfde als op de LP's :)

    December 2011

  • Menno75

    Great Twitter account for Golden Earring news in English: http://twitter.com/EarringTweets

    November 2011

  • Necromancer

    Golden Earring is in the BeNeLux Rock League, check it out at http://www.last.fm/group/BeNeLux+Rock+League

    November 2011

  • Menno75

    Finally, a more recent picture...

    October 2011

  • Mijibijin

    These guys are a fucking goldmine.

    September 2011

  • leftblaank

    Who cares about the charts. This band ROCK!

    September 2011

  • Menno75

    @ TheDarkSide73: Yes. Two Hit Wonder in the U.S., One Hit Wonder in the U.K. (Radar Love), Three Hit Wonder in Canada (Radar Love, Twilight Zone and When The Lady Smiles all Top 3). In Holland: five #1 singles, another 22 in the Top 10, over 30 Gold and Platinum albums, 400 weeks in the charts in total...

    September 2011

  • TheDarkSide73

    A Two Hit Wonder Band (at least here in the U.S.)

    August 2011

  • Sigibert

    +1

    May 2011

  • j3lle

    This is are not the charts i expected to see.. why does radar love has so many plays? They have made tons of great songs..

    May 2011

  • Sigibert

    Twilight zone is the best song ever ♥

    May 2011

  • DarkElement

    Natuurlijk mn favoriete Nederlandse band! :)

    May 2011

  • alienagent

    Place is a madhouse ... feels like being cloned.

    May 2011

  • Kelevra26

    http://www.lastfm.ru/music/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F - This is the band; (Aria – Беспечный ангел - This is the song). This songs are not so different, because music was not changed. This band "Aria" just translated the text of this song from english into russia

    April 2011

  • ALEXX1957

    YESSSSSSSSSS!!!

    April 2011

  • Kelevra26

    Yep. The cover version of this song was a fantastic hit in Russia. But original version has never been very famous. Unfortunately)

    April 2011

  • SashaPrestig

    Going to the run отлично.

    April 2011
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