We’ve got a thing and that’s a-called radar love, wails the Dutch rock outfit Golden Earring. Their 1973 raucous anthem “Radar Love” may have been one of the group’s only widespread hits, but what a ...

Sharing a love for music with his neighbor Rinus Gerritsen, George Kooymans decided to start a band. Although they first called themselves the Tornados in the early 1960s, they soon learned there was ...

NEW YORK (AP) — George Kooymans, the guitarist and co-founder of the Dutch band Golden Earring who co-wrote the hard-rock classic “Radar Love” and wrote and shared lead vocals on the top 10 hit ...

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The band and Kooymans’ family announced his death, saying he died on July 23 from complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a degenerative disease affecting the nerve cells in the ...

“George bore this devastating and debilitating illness with exceptional strength and dignity,” the statement from Golden Earring reads in part. “We bid farewell to a great musician and composer, whose ...