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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.

Formed in 1961, Golden Earring has been active for more than 50 years non-stop, which makes Golden Earring the world’s longest surviving rock band, formed a year before The Rolling Stones. The current line-up has been unchanged since 1970.

In 1961 George Kooymans (age 13) and his neighbour Rinus Gerritsen (age 15) formed The Tornados in the Zuiderpark district of their home town of The Hague, The Netherlands. The band’s first line-up mainly played The Shadows and The Ventures covers, as well as 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). The band soon had a devoted local following. Under the Golden Earrings moniker the band eventually recorded four albums and had twelve hit singles in the Netherlands between 1965 and 1969, of which ten reached the Dutch Top 10.

One of the band’s sixties singles was their first #1 hit in The Netherlands: 1968’s carnavalesque Dong-Dong-Diki-Digi-Dong, although that tune is now frowned upon by the band and generally regarded as inferior to other early Earrings gems, such as That Day (1966), Daddy Buy Me a Girl (1966) and the epic Just A Little Bit Of Peace In My Heart (1969).
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  • j3lle

    I wanna Go Go Go! Like a burnin' stuntman!

    yesterday morning

  • crownanchor

    RADAR LOVE :):):)

    9 days ago

  • Menno75

    A handful of acoustic Golden Earring gigs already confirmed for 2013. They're not on the official Golden Earring website yet, but they're on Last.fm (including links to the venue websites, as proof that these dates are confirmed and official). Presale for some of these shows has already started.

    11 days ago

  • secret_nick

    Winter Harvest is almost perfect, must be one of the most underrated 60s albums out there. Easily in my top 20 list, maybe even higher.

    19 days ago

  • uknowweloveu

    Sleepwalkin', Don't panic, we're on the Titanic :)

    last month

  • secret_nick

    Winter Harvest <3

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  • mynameisjoehann

    So much more than a 1 hit wonder

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  • xDesunoto

    The new one-song single 'Still Got The Keys To My First Cadillac' is now available for download through iTunes for those interested in purchasing music digitally. I'm not. I'll wait for the full album. :)

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