Golden Earring
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's-Gravenhage, Netherlands (1961 – present)
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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The Continuing Story Of Radar Love
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Golden Earring
013, Tilburg, Netherlands
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- Mar 19 Golden Earring Parktheater, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Mar 21 Golden Earring Schouwburg Kunstmin, Dordrecht, Netherlands
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