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"Radar Love" is a song by the Dutch rock band Golden Earring. The single version of "Radar Love" reached No. 9 on the Record World chart, No. 10 on Cash Box , and No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.
Golden Earring were a Dutch rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as The Tornados.They achieved worldwide fame with their international hit songs "Radar Love" in 1973, which went to number one on the Dutch chart, reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, and went to number thirteen on the United States chart, [3] [4] "Twilight Zone" in 1982, and "When the Lady Smiles" in 1984. [3]
A cover of Golden Earring's "Radar Love" (which peaked at No. 59) was released as the second single and "Cry for Freedom", a political song about apartheid in South Africa [6] was released as the third single. "Going Home Tonight" was released as the album's final single.
Moontan is the ninth album by Dutch rock band Golden Earring, released in 1973.It contains the radio hit "Radar Love", and was voted ninth-best Dutch pop album ever by readers of music magazine Oor in 2008. [5]
Big Game is the third studio album by the American glam metal band White Lion.It was released on June 5, 1989, by Atlantic Records, reaching #19 on The Billboard 200 album chart, #28 in Canada and #47 In the UK.
Lyrically, "Radar Love" is a tale of late-night driving and ESP; the real attraction is the non-stop parade of musical invention, from the aforementioned intro and drum solo to the twin guitar responses to each vocal line in the last verse to the cascading synthesizers that crash the tune to a close.
Despite these tensions, Williamson co-wrote all the songs with Pop and played all the guitar parts on the ensuing album, Raw Power (1973). [7] He played louder and raunchier than almost anybody at the time, with a jagged high-energy approach. According to Williamson, "I was a very emotional guitar player, so I always played that way.
Also other European countries showed interest, and Centerfold performed the song for the German TV show WWF Club. More hits followed, such as Up and Coming and a cover of the Golden Earring classic Radar Love. Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Anderson of ABBA fame wrote a follow-up single for the girls, Bitch When I See Red.