Golden Earring was a Dutch rock band, active from 1961 to 2021. The best known and internationally most succesful rock band to come out of the Netherlands (The Hague, to be precise), they had 47 chart hits in their home country. Outside of The Netherlands they are best known for their brace of North American hits, Radar Love (1973, a U.S. hit in 1974) and Twilight Zone (1982, a U.S. hit in 1983). Formed in 1961, the band was active for over 60 years non-stop (56 years of studio output, starting in 1965), which made them the world's longest surviving rock band, formed a year before The Rolling Stones, until their tragic demise on 5 February 2021, when founding member George Kooymans revealed that he had been diagnosed with ALS.