This 70s Rocker is SO BADA$$-It's CAUSED MORE Speeding Tickets Than Any OTHER SONG-Professor of Rock

Here’s one for ya. Golden Earring was a band that had 47 hits in their homeland but struggled to break through in America… They finally did in 1973 with Radar Love. But it was one and done. They would be known as a one-hit wonder until 9 years later when they shook off that label and had another massive hit with Twilight Zone. But today’s song Radar Love is about a tragic car accident where someone lost their life and a misheard lyric that made it a classic. It’s been covered over 500 times and may have caused more speeding tickets than any other song. Get ready for a great story next on Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another episode of our series #1 in Our Hearts where we discuss a song that was so grand, it should’ve been a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 It’s so frustrating when a great song comes out and it’s soaring into the upper reaches of the charts and then I stalls just when you think it will take the number one spot. Well this one was really tough because it didn’t sound like anything in the top 10. It was a unique song with an amazing story and deserved to be enshrined at the top spot so today we going to change history and give it the #1 spot in our hearts. Here we go…
He was driving all night... his hands wet on the wheel…Suddenly….he receives a message from above….It’s his baby calling- telling him that she needs him. Tapping into a gifted psychic power of communication they called “Radar Love,” his lover transmits an impassioned plea to get to her as fast as he can!!
“Radar Love”….A frantic song of passion, with a tragic ending by Golden Earring- arguably, the biggest rock band to come out of Holland. Like many rock classics, “Radar Love” evolved from an organic riff. It was a bluesy riff created by Golden Earring co-founder and lead guitarist George Kooymans - who was just pickin' and grinnin' while the band was rehearsing in a rehearsal studio.
George came up with an infectious chord sequence on a rhythm guitar that accidentally became the basis of “Radar Love”... and the rest of the band joined in to slowly build a symphonic instrumental arrangement. “Radar Love” was conceived as a suite- with several distinctive auxiliary parts. For instance, there are two intros- the first is centered around a dramatic 8-bar guitar/ drum segment created by drummer Cesar Zuiderwijk (zjah-der-vay)
The 2nd intro initiates the song's entrancing rhythm line with an escort of marching snare drums. The track has two bridges- one highlighted by Kooymans guitar licks over the song’s primary melody: And another bridge delivered with a pounding drum & horn combination, that was inspired by the music of Santana- with lively Latin percussion and heavy brass: There are also extended solos, along with a drawn out chorus before a vigorous, climactic finale.
As frontman Barry Hay explained, the inventive structure of “Radar Love" was all very spontaneous, with lots of artistic improv along the way.