Golden Earring
On Tour
2,373,133 plays (271,452 listeners)
's-Gravenhage, Netherlands (1961 – present)
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),
Top Albums
-
Moontan
Golden Earring
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $5.34
- 7digital Search
- iTunes $5.94
- Buy Album
- Amazon $5.32
- eBay Search
-
The Continuing Story Of Radar Love
Golden Earring
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $7.99
- 7digital Search
- iTunes $9.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
-
Naked II
Golden Earring
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon $12.48
- eBay Search
-
The Naked Truth
Golden Earring
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
Videos
-
Play
Twilight Zone (Extended Version)
6 shouts
-
Play
Dong-Dong-Di-Ki-Di-Gi-Dong
-
Play
- FIGHTING WINDMILLS -- LIVE…
-
Play
the song is over
5 shouts
Events
- Jun 1 Madstock 2012 Heeseind, Nuland, Netherlands
-
Jun
2
Golden Earring
Sportvelden V.V. Strijen, Strijen, Netherlands
3 going
-
Jun
29
Concert At Sea 2012
Brouwersdam, Renesse, Netherlands
12 going
Listening Now
Top Listeners
-
PimD
Top Listener
-
RoyB173
Top Listener
-
Pimnoi
Top Listener
-
BernieWillems
Top Listener
More Information
- Links
- Band Members
- Labels
Email Newsletter
Get exclusive tour, release & promotion updates on Golden Earring from Universal Music.
















