Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (live in 1985) • TopPop

Today, March 21, 2022, let's celebrate George Kooymans 74th birthday!
George Jan Kooymans (born 11 March 1948, The Hague, Netherlands) is a Dutch guitarist and vocalist. He is best known for his work with the Dutch group Golden Earring. Kooymans wrote "Twilight Zone", the group's only Top 10 Pop Single on the US Billboard Hot 100, which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Album Tracks chart.
The single the number 1 position in both the Dutch Top 40 and the TROS Top 50. In Belgium the single reached the number 5 position of the Flemish Ultratop 50. Twilight Zone would sell approximately one and a half million copies.
Golden Earring were a Dutch rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as The Golden Earrings by George Kooymans and Rinus Gerritsen. They achieved worldwide fame with their international hit songs "Radar Love" in 1973, which went to number one on the Dutch charts, reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, and went to number thirteen on the United States charts, "Twilight Zone" in 1982, and "When the Lady Smiles" in 1984. During their career they had nearly 30 top-ten singles on the Dutch charts and released 25 studio albums.
Kooymans also wrote and produced for other artists. In 2017 and 2018 he released two albums as a member of Vreemde Kostgangers, a Dutch-language supergroup he formed with Henny Vrienten (bass player of the band Doe Maar) and singer-songwriter Boudewijn de Groot.
In February, 2021, Kooymans announced that he was suffering from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and would retire. Shortly afterward, Golden Earring announced they would disband.
This video was broadcast on the TROS Formula 1 show of September 30, 1985
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Broadcast date: August 21, 1982
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[@willbanks1317]

'The Devil Made Me Do It' is another great Golden Earring song from this era, that should have been a hit in the US.

[@ddoeser5830]

Gewéldige Band mogen we best trots op zijn in NEDERLAND 🇳🇱 Onvergetelijk ❤🎸🎸🥁🎼👍👋🙏( Jaar 2022)

[@KennethGLADUE]

❤ Best tune in the 80s ❤

[@that70sgirl90]

Happy Friday! That just took me to The "Twilight Zone!" Happy 74th Birthday Birthday 🥳 George Kooymans! Thank you for sharing!

[@mysticenoctua]

WOOOOW WONDERFUL!!!!!!

[@2zwaantjes]

Altijd zo geweldig om Golden Earring hier (in VS) op de radio of tv te horen. Dan loopt mijn Hollandse hartje over van trots🥰🥰🥰

[@ElisabethKlaassen]

The good old days wonderful band and song LG Elisabeth.

[@dominiqueverschuren2397]

Great to hear my favourite Earring-song on this special day, 11th of March: George's birthday. I also would like to take the opportunity to clarify the date. Watching Cesar's drumkit this recording seems to me rather from 1984 than from 1982. I also recognised in the first second Erik de Zwart, the host who was in 1982 still active for Veronica and not for the TROS, the broadcasting organisation of "Formule 1". In april 1984 De Zwart made the temporary switch from Veronica to TROS. It is anyway not Toppop as mentioned in the title. Nevertheless a great recording: there's never enough Golden Earring spread over the world. ;-)

[@marcelboogaard3809]

Had Cesar toen ook al die drum body warmer?

[@toppop]

You are right, it was september 1985

[@moniquev.jaarsveld1353]

Blijft gaaf. 😀👍🙏🌼👏👌🌹🌹🌼🍀

[@gordonspond]

Reminds me of a girlfriend I had in 1981: She was a diehard KISS and Golden Earring fan. Me... not so much. 40 years later it still sounds great... so maybe she was right after all. Groetjes van de US.

[@davidkastin4240]

Love it! 🎸

[@angusian37]

Una de mis favoritas de esta gran banda poco valorada pero los que sabemos de la buena música sabemos lo grande que son y todo lo que han echó por el hard rock 🤘🎸💪

[@craigclark7936]

Music was real back then

[@stellacarrier8341]

I'm glad that this live 1985 version of Twilight Zone music video by Golden Earring is currently made available to view online, (via the Top Pop)this live version is amusing to listen to and view.

[@stevenevans5106]

Great band, fantastic live.

[@uselessjoe]

Still the best band in the Netherlands

[@marciagasparvieira9593]

UAUUIUUU SHOWWW TOPPPPP

[@PeterWendel]

🤟🏼😊 👍👍👍

[@akramer6154]

Where's the rest of this concert ? Only twilight zone and and Something heavy going down have been uploaded.

[@Raysboss302]

It’s from 1985.

[@crocket1971]

Great!!! But this is 1984/1985

[@terbear6519]

Are they German?

[@olymartin]

Dutch.

[@marcelboogaard3809]

@@olymartin apart from Barry.😉

[@LuvBorderCollies]

1st cousins --- Dutch.

[@larsvanmoer453]

Dutch, as mentioned several times in the description just under the video ...

[@zionred]

great band, horrible name

[@akramer6154]

Named after a song they played in the early years.

[@garywagner2466]

Better than zionred.