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68. Some news this morning, though no update on George's health.

Checking Google, I found a number of stories on Dutch news sites about plans underway for a monument to Golden Earring in The Hague. A sculptor has been chosen, and he's submitted general plans for the design, but the exact design and location haven't been determined yet.

https://www.omroepwest.nl/nieuws/4635749/golden-earring-krijgt-metershoog-monument

Not the first time they've been honored in their native country. There's a street named after the band, there was a tile on a Sony Records-sponsored walk (those tiles are now in a museum), and they've been on postage stamps.

There was also news this morning about the remastering and reissuing of the first solo albums by both George and lead singer Barry Hay.

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/george-kooymans-jojo-remastered-cd-release-25th-november-2022.1157252/

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/barry-hay-only-parrots-frogs-angels-remastered-cd-release-25th-november-2022.1157253/


Re honors for the band...

The most notable one occurred on George's birthday, March 11, of last year, just weeks after the news that he'd been diagnosed with ALS was made public in early February, 2021.

As I mentioned in reply 15 above and in an OP about his birthday this year in the Music Appreciation group - https://democraticunderground.com/103471740 - radio stations and church bells all over the Netherlands played "Radar Love" at 5:15 in the afternoon, rush hour, to honor George and his band on his birthday.

But I found out recently it wasn't just radio stations and churches.

A football stadium got involved, too.

Three tweets below, from that day.

The first, from that football team in The Hague, was tweeted exactly at 5:15 in the Netherlands to everyone following that account. It shows the music video for "Radar Love" (the one in the OP here) playing on the stadium's two screens. The Twitter video shows the entire song, so they'd played it earlier to capture that video, then had probably kept it playing, at least through the designated time. There was a rainstorm going on then, and you can hear it before and after the music video, and sometimes while it was being shown on those screens.

The second tweet, posted at 5:20 by a political journalist, shows the rainbow that had appeared at exactly 5:15 over The Hague, the city where George was born.

And the third video, posted at 5:30, shows what was going on at 5:16, 3/11/2021, for everyone listening to radio in the Netherlands, as someone checked different radio stations.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet