George Kooymans

George Kooymans

George Kooymans

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  • Solo
  • January 2025
  • 10 Songs

Top Songs

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The Beat Goes On (single edit)
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Again
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Lonely Hearts
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Shoot The Man Down
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The Devil Rides Again Tonight

Albums

  • Lovin' And Hurtin'

    Dec 1971 • 2 songs

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George Kooymans

Biography

George Kooymans was the guitarist and co-founder of Golden Earring, the longest-lived and most successful rock group the Netherlands ever produced. Kooymans was born on March 11, 1948, in The Hague, and co-founded an instrumental rock & roll combo, the Tornados, with childhood friend and bassist Rinus Gerritsen in 1961. Not long afterward, a British group of the same name had an international hit with "Telstar," and Kooymans and Gerritsen changed the band's name to the Golden Earrings, after a Peggy Lee song. In 1965, having adopted a British beat style, they became the first ...
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