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'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), Daddy Buy Me a Girl (1966) and the epic Just A Little Bit Of Peace In My Heart (1969).
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Golden EarringTuesday 28 May 2013
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naturefirst
Going To The Run , very nice song!!
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MusicMagic77
@TheDarkSide73: They have many excellent albums (lot of vinyls and CDs) WORLDWIDE !!!
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Spotify playlist: Classic Rock
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Erfey
Ария совсем охуела
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Menno75
@TheDarkSide73: Yes, only two hits... in the United States. But the world's a bit bigger than the U.S., you know...
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tripodthunder
Wow Twilight Zone is not number 1! But I grew up in the 80's so Radar Love was before my time...
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TheDarkSide73
They only seem to have two hits.."Radar Love" in the 70s and of course "Twilight Zone" in the 80s..
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Neurotik_Barbie
Twilight Zone & Dong-Dong-Di-Ki-Di-Gi-Dong. ♥ Nice band to have in your country!
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Sigibert
never thought i'd ever listen to this kind of music and now i just cant stop to)) (2)
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naturefirst
this was a time !!!
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MetalRock1989
Tits 'n Ass is really good, nice classic rock from such an old act, still rockin'! [4]
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MCJ_25rus
Going To The Run!!!
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Gunkgirl
never thought i'd ever listen to this kind of music and now i just cant stop to))
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Necroclown666
<3 8 september was amazing.
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LastBanshi
Twilight Zone has less plays but it's a great song
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SawyeRvsFreddiE
Going to the Ruuuunnnnn!...
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Exkursovod
amazing! one of the most underrated bands!
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freaklein
Tits 'n Ass is really good, nice classic rock from such an old act, still rockin'! [3]
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Menno75
Tits 'n Ass is really good, nice classic rock from such an old act, still rockin'! [2]
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Tits 'n Ass is really good, nice classic rock from such an old act, still rockin'!
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