![]() I'm not sure an American band would or could ever have written Twilight Zone: there's a very European edginess and sense of discomfort to it, both lyrically and muscially, which the faux noir video suits admirably. ![]() But it rather ignores the song, which is just about as good as AOR ever got. The usual explanation for Twilight Zone's success is that its stylish, cinematic promo clip became a staple of the young music network, and that's true. Golden Earring were by now a different band again, producing slick pop-rock that was perfectly placed to capitalise on both the rise of AOR and the birth of MTV. Then they disappeared back to massive success in Holland and relative obscurity everywhere else for another nine years, until 1982 saw the release of Twilight Zone, which became a US smash. ![]() They embraced the psychedelia and then the new mood of progressive exploration – their 1970 album Eight Miles High featured a 19-minute take on the Byrds' song that's surprisingly decent, as 19-minute takes on mid-60s pop classics go – and found themselves briefly famous outside their home nation when Radar Love became an international hit in 1973, the kind of boogie that seemed effortlessly find an audience in those distant days. Their first records – made as the Golden Earrings – were in the style history has dubbed Nederbeat, that being the admirably tough Dutch take on the British R&B explosion of the mid-60s.
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