위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.
미국에서 록밴드로 널리 알려진 Golden Earring(골든 이어링)은 1960년대 중반까지만 해도 네덜란드에서 팝 음악을 하는 자국 밴드로 인기를 모으고 있었다. 이 그룹은 1961년도 당시 학생이었던 조리 쿠이먼스(George Kooymans 기타, 보컬)와 라이너스 게리슨 (Rinus Gerritsen 베이스, 보컬)에 의해 만들어졌다.몇 년이 지나고, 구성원들도 여럿 바뀐 후 그들은 'Please Go'로 자국에서 첫 성공을 거두었다. 1968년에는 'Dong-Dong-Di-Ki-Di-Gi- Dong'으로 네덜란드 차트 1위에 오르면서 유럽시장에도 알려지기 시작했다. 멤버를 확정하고 몇 년간의 실험 끝에 후(Who)의 성향과 비슷한 하드록을 하기로 결정한 이들은 첫 싱글 [Hearing Earing]을 발표했고 이 앨범은 이들이 영국으로 진출하는 기반을 마련해 주었다. 1974년에 발표한 싱글 'Radar Love'는 영국에서는 상위 10위, 미국 차트에서는 13위를 차지하는 성과를 거두었다. 이들은 두비 브러더스(Doobie Brothers)와 산타나(Santana) 공연의 오프닝 밴드로 나서기도 하였으나 미국 내에서 골든 이어링의 지명도는 너무나 미미한 것이었기에 관중의 호응은 형편없었다. 이후 골든 이어링의 멤버들은 유럽에서 각자 솔로로 활동하기 시작했다. 그들의 히트곡 'Radar Love'는 팝메 틀 그룹 화이트 라이온(White Lion)이 1989년에 커버함으로써 제2의 인기를 누렸다.
* N.E.W.S. 가사
N.E.W., N.E.W., N.E.W.S., North, East, West and South
Read all about it, read all about it
Neeeeeeeeeeeeews
I wanna know about the weather tomorrow, I wanna know what happened
today
I wanna feel that I'm a part of the games, that all the other people play
I mean, being in touch with the actual thing, no matter how amazing
Oh I turn on my radio, switch on my TV, open a paper and a magazine
Let's see what they got, let's see what they got
Let's see what they got, to upset me
It's pitiful, shameful, all I hear and read and see
Four directions of the wind, and a four-way misery
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (2x)
Well once upon a time I was a sailorman, curious about my destiny
So I sailed away on a ship of slaves; the rest, as you know, is history
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (2x)
There's gotta be a lesson for you and me, I mean everybody
How come we never seem to learn, from the things that we all study
Let me hear you say:
North - Scandinavia, Alaska, Siberia
East - Japan, China and India
West - Europe and the US of America
South - Australia, South America, South Africa
Spell it out! N.E., Who, me? Yeah You! Double You and S for South
Jungle drum, word of mouth
We're gonna get it together, we're gonna work it out.
We're gonna get it together, work it out, work it out
So I turn on my radio, switch on my TV, open a paper and a magazine
Let's see what they got, let's see what they got,
Let's see what they got, to update me
It's pitiful, shameful, all I hear and read and see
Four directions of the wind and a four-way misery
North, East, West
We're gonna get it together, we're gonna work it out
We're gonna get it together, work it out, work it out
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
****Radar Love에 관한 몇몇 팩트
* The crew of NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-117) on June 15, 2007 got a wake up call by request of astronaut Steve Swanson's wife to the tunes of Golden Earring's Radar Love
* The NASA Mars Pathfinder, after battery problems, awakened on July 28, 1997 to the tune of Radar Love
*In March 2006 the readers of the Canadian BBC website, Top
Gear section, picked Radar Love their favourite Driving Song from
a selection of 20 songs, followed by Keep their headz Ringin' (Dr. Dre), Where the Streets have no Name (U2), Born to be Wild (Steppenwolf), Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen).
* In November 2005 the readers of Australian Musician Magazine choose Radar Love by Golden Earring the Best Driving Song beating AC/DC (at #2 Long way to the Top, and #3 Highway to Hell) on their home turf!
* In August 2005 the readers of the internet Travel section of USA Today choose Radar Love the Best Travelers Song, followed by Where the Streets have no Name (U2), Freeway of Love (Aretha Franklin and Come Fly with me (Frank Sinatra).
* In July 2005 the viewers of BBC's Top Gear voted Radar Love
at number 2 in the poll for Greatest Driving Song of All Time.
Radar Love finished second behind Queen with the tune Don't
Stop me Now.
* In October 2001 the readers of the newspaper Washington Post choose Radar Love by Golden Earring as th� Radio Song ever!
Boys of Summer (Don Henley), American Pie (Don McLean) and Satisfaction (Rolling Stones) made number 2, 3 and 4.
* Bono's favorite song is Radar Love. In 1997 U2 played RL
on the Popmart Tour (check: Cover Versions). In 2005 Bono
sang the song at Anton Corbijn birthday, and again he sang
RL on the Vertigo Tour airplane while entering Dutch airspace,
live on Yorin-FM radio, requesting RL as his favorite song
* "Kiss" was opening act for Golden Earring during the 1974 US 'Moontan-Tour'!
시간 날 때 각자 알아서 해석하시고, Radar Love와 위의 세곡은 운전할때(단 속도 조절 필수) 기분 안 좋을때, 요즘같이 몸이 쳐질때 들으면 완전 좋다. 사실 암때나 들어도 좋다.
*칼키가 알려준 자동반복기능은 이따가 시도 해 보게씀. 칼키 짱!
야 기분좋다