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Music Appreciation

highplainsdem

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3. One of the early (1968) songs George cowrote with their bass player, Rinus Gerritsen, who the next

Reply to turbinetree (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 26, 2025, 03:03 PM

Jul 26

year became his brother-in-law. George and Rinus cowrote a lot of their songs at first. Then for a few years George did all the songwriting, and then he started writing songs with lead singer Barry Hay, letting Barry write the lyrics for most of their songs (not all; Barry came up with the lyrics for Radar Love, while George wrote Twilight Zone by himself).

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Golden Earring - Vanilla Queen - 4/25/1975 - Winterland [View all] turbinetree Jul 23 OP

Great song and performance. highplainsdem Jul 23 #1

Golden Earring - I've Just Lost Somebody turbinetree Jul 25 #2

One of the early (1968) songs George cowrote with their bass player, Rinus Gerritsen, who the next highplainsdem Jul 26 #3

Thank you.............. turbinetree Jul 26 #4

You're welcome! :) Btw, there's very old video of that song, done for a Dutch TV show in 1968, highplainsdem Jul 26 #5

That was very cool to know.............. turbinetree Jul 26 #6