The song and especially the video tell the story of an espionage agent, on the run from enemy spies before being cornered. Right out front, note that this song has nothing to do with Manhattan Transfer’s “Twilight Zone.” One is not a cover of the other. George Kooymans sadly announced this year that he is suffering from ALS and the band officially dissolved. Golden Earring was a Dutch band and they were formed in Hauge in 1961. I knew them for Radar Love and any seventies rock group in the 80s was nice to hear. I was happy to hear this song at the time.
#TWILIGHT ZONE GOLDEN EARRING SERIES#
The song’s intro will stick in your head for days…kind of like the intro to the Twilight Zone TV series a repeating riff. He was inspired not by the famous TV series of the same name, but by the Robert Ludlum novel The Bourne Identity, which would later be turned into a popular movie. The Twilight Zone was written by Golden Earring’s lead guitarist George Kooymans. Many wanted people to make up their own mind about songs and not think of “guitarists in leather pants.” Some bands hated videos because it could change the songs perception. I have to wonder how the landscape of music would have changed without MTV in the 80s. It peaked at #10 in the Billboard 100 and #13 in Canada in 1983. It was in heavy rotation and it paid off for the band. This song was a great example of MTV’s clout. To kick off reviewing the Twilight Zone episodes… I thought this was appropriate.
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