Golden Earring Biography


The story of Golden Earring, below here, is written by Rinus Gerritsen in 2000.

When a recording artist has been in the picture for one or more decades, compilations and ‘greatest hits’ releases become inevitable.
We never gave these kind of things much personal cooperation or attention, because we saw it as a kind of sell-out that stood in the way of the creative process that will always be sacred to us.
When Roy Teysse approached us with the plan for this project, on behalf of Universal, we were just about to embark on a sabbatical year and if there is no such things...

When The Lady Smiles
G.Kooymans/B.Hay - Nada/Snamyook Music


When the lady smiles,
you know it drives me wild
Her lips are warm and resourceful

When her fingertips,
go drawing circles in the night
Then the mood is soft and sensual, hu-u

And I love it, yeah I love it
It’s the answer to all my dreams
Every time it feels like the earth is shakin’
It doesn’t matter, a glass is fallin’,
I hear it shatter,
maybe it’s raining, faster and faster, shadow dancin’
together oh I, I’m a bettin’ on the game of love
oh oh oh I, I’m bettin’ that love is gonna come out

When the walls no longer...