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Michael Baryshnikov
Feb 9, 2021, 2:52:24 AM2/9/21
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Radar Love hitmakers Golden Earring split 60 years after forming
(c) By Fraser Lewry (Classic Rock)
Dutch Rockers Golden Earring are calling it a day after guitarist George
Kooymans was diagnosed with ALS
Dutch rockers Golden Earring have broken up. The band, who originally formed as
the Golden Earrings in 1961, are calling it quits after guitarist George
Kooymans was diagnosed with the degenerative muscle disease ALS.
The news was broken by the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, who revealed that
Kooymans had informed his bandmates - frontman Barry Hay, drummer Cesar
Zuiderwijk and bassist Rinus Gerritsen - at the end of last year.
In a phone call with the newspaper, Kooymans confirmed the story, saying, "I am
indeed ill. I have ALS. It's a very bad prognosis and I'm not really in the
mood to say much about it. I am being treated at the university hospital in
Leuven. That's it. It's a progressive disease. Unfortunately, performing is no
longer possible."
"This is a death blow," says Hay. "We always said we would keep going until one
of us fell over. I didn't expect George to be the first. Kooymans was always
the toughest of the four of us.
"You sometimes philosophise about that: who goes first? And he was always at
the back of the line. It sucks, and we would have preferred a farewell tour,
but unfortunately it is what it is."
The band's final show was in 2019, at the 16,000-capacity Ahoy venue in
Rotterdam. The final date on the band's winter tour, the setlist included their
three most well-known international hits: Radar Love, a UK top 10 hit in 1973,
and Twilight Zone and When The Lady Smiles, both Billboard chart hits in the
early 1980s.
Golden Earring were more successful in the Netherlands, hitting the charts with
60 singles and reaching the number one position four times: with
Dong-Dong-Di-Ki-Di-Gi-Dong in 1968, Back Home in 1970, Radar Love in 1973 and
When The Lady Smiles in 1984. The band's most recent hit was Still Got The Keys
To My First Cadillac, a Dutch Top 20 single in 2012.
Kooymans formed the band with in The Hague in 1961 with Rinus Gerritsen, and
the final line-up of Kooymans, Gerritsen, Hays and Zuiderwijk had been in place
since 1970, with the classic Moontan album arriving three years later.
Asked if it would be possible to carry on without Kooymans, Zuiderwijk
responded, "We are a group of four men who are irreplaceable. A new band
member? That wouldn't fit."
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No comments.
Michael Baryshnikov.
===
Radar Love hitmakers Golden Earring split 60 years after forming
(c) By Fraser Lewry (Classic Rock)
Dutch Rockers Golden Earring are calling it a day after guitarist George
Kooymans was diagnosed with ALS
Dutch rockers Golden Earring have broken up. The band, who originally formed as
the Golden Earrings in 1961, are calling it quits after guitarist George
Kooymans was diagnosed with the degenerative muscle disease ALS.
The news was broken by the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, who revealed that
Kooymans had informed his bandmates - frontman Barry Hay, drummer Cesar
Zuiderwijk and bassist Rinus Gerritsen - at the end of last year.
In a phone call with the newspaper, Kooymans confirmed the story, saying, "I am
indeed ill. I have ALS. It's a very bad prognosis and I'm not really in the
mood to say much about it. I am being treated at the university hospital in
Leuven. That's it. It's a progressive disease. Unfortunately, performing is no
longer possible."
"This is a death blow," says Hay. "We always said we would keep going until one
of us fell over. I didn't expect George to be the first. Kooymans was always
the toughest of the four of us.
"You sometimes philosophise about that: who goes first? And he was always at
the back of the line. It sucks, and we would have preferred a farewell tour,
but unfortunately it is what it is."
The band's final show was in 2019, at the 16,000-capacity Ahoy venue in
Rotterdam. The final date on the band's winter tour, the setlist included their
three most well-known international hits: Radar Love, a UK top 10 hit in 1973,
and Twilight Zone and When The Lady Smiles, both Billboard chart hits in the
early 1980s.
Golden Earring were more successful in the Netherlands, hitting the charts with
60 singles and reaching the number one position four times: with
Dong-Dong-Di-Ki-Di-Gi-Dong in 1968, Back Home in 1970, Radar Love in 1973 and
When The Lady Smiles in 1984. The band's most recent hit was Still Got The Keys
To My First Cadillac, a Dutch Top 20 single in 2012.
Kooymans formed the band with in The Hague in 1961 with Rinus Gerritsen, and
the final line-up of Kooymans, Gerritsen, Hays and Zuiderwijk had been in place
since 1970, with the classic Moontan album arriving three years later.
Asked if it would be possible to carry on without Kooymans, Zuiderwijk
responded, "We are a group of four men who are irreplaceable. A new band
member? That wouldn't fit."
===
No comments.
Michael Baryshnikov.
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