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highplainsdem

(48,975 posts) Thu Feb 10, 2022, 11:15 AM Feb 2022

Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (live on German TV show Rockpalast, 1982)

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Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (live on German TV show Rockpalast, 1982) (Original Post) highplainsdem Feb 2022 OP

Great performance, better than the studio version, which spent half a year on US charts. highplainsdem Feb 2022 #1

The song was inspired by Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, which highplainsdem Feb 2022 #2

Studio version, for comparison: highplainsdem Feb 2022 #3

highplainsdem

(48,975 posts)

1. Great performance, better than the studio version, which spent half a year on US charts.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Feb 10, 2022, 12:13 PM

Feb 2022

highplainsdem

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2. The song was inspired by Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, which

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Feb 10, 2022, 12:17 PM

Feb 2022

lead guitarist George Kooymans had just read. (This was years before the miniseries and film.) The song also pays tribute to the TV show The Twilight Zone.

highplainsdem

(48,975 posts)

3. Studio version, for comparison:

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Feb 10, 2022, 07:56 PM

Feb 2022

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