Golden Earring

[ErikM]

Because of "Radar love" and the album 'Moontan' Golden Earring became also popular outside Holland. As mentioned before most of their work turned towards traditional stadium rock. No one mentioned that Barry Hay (their singer) also had an adventurous and progressive solo album : "Only parrots, frogs and angels" that came out in 1972.
And strange is also that nobody mentioned one of Holland's most important progbands : KAYAK that still exist today.
Their first album came out in 1973 and all their six seventies albums are essential for all who enjoy easy-going, melodieus progrock with haunting tunes that sounded simple but weren't. Their 3 albums from the '80's are also good but more pop style and shorter songs.
This century they reunited and their new album (number 16) is called "Coming up for air". Also great are the conceptalbums "Merlin - bard of the unseen" (2003) and "Nostradamus - the fate of man" (2005), both are double cd's.
In Holland they had 9 single hits and one of them became internationally known : "Ruthless Queen" (1978 and in 1979 outside Holland).