A couple of minutes later, Golden Earring вЂ“ who must assiduously self-search вЂ“ tweeted back: 'thats a long time ago Michael.Based on Richard MathesonвЂ™s 1950 short story of the same name (which first appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine), Rod Serling adapted the teleplay for вЂњThird From The SunвЂќ to fit The Twilight Zone and he stayed mostly true to the original.

In fact, after finding the Eight Miles High clip above, I tweeted the link. Twilight Zone would work without the production bells and whistles, but they're restrained enough to complement the song, and I think a straight rock version wouldn't generate the same excitement (a part of me wonders what Trevor Horn might have made of it, given what he did to Yes's Owner of a Lonely Heart).ДЄnd still they plug away. Twilight Zone has a clean and crisp production (probably helped by being just a little too early for the gated snare sound that ruined so many records in the second half of the decade) that's all but timeless вЂ“ certainly, many of the groups who've been dabbling with 80s MOR in the past couple of years might learn something from its combination of rock's propulsion and pop's tunefulness: this is indisputably a rock band вЂ“ that crashing chord, just off the beat, at 'when the bullet hits the bone' is proof enough of that. Of its time, though, suggests it is mired in the 80s. And you can hear the many and varied lives of Golden Earring folded into its construction вЂ“ the beat group in its simple opening guitar figure and familiar chord changes and the progressive explorers in the guitar solos of the extended album version brought together into something slick and of its time. I'm not sure an American band would or could ever have written Twilight Zone: there's a very European edginess and sense of discomfort to it, both lyrically and muscially, which the faux noir video suits admirably. But it rather ignores the song, which is just about as good as AOR ever got. The usual explanation for Twilight Zone's success is that its stylish, cinematic promo clip became a staple of the young music network, and that's true. Golden Earring were by now a different band again, producing slick pop-rock that was perfectly placed to capitalise on both the rise of AOR and the birth of MTV. Then they disappeared back to massive success in Holland and relative obscurity everywhere else for another nine years, until 1982 saw the release of Twilight Zone, which became a US smash. They embraced the psychedelia and then the new mood of progressive exploration вЂ“ their 1970 album Eight Miles High featured a 19-minute take on the Byrds' song that's surprisingly decent, as 19-minute takes on mid-60s pop classics go вЂ“ and found themselves briefly famous outside their home nation when Radar Love became an international hit in 1973, the kind of boogie that seemed effortlessly find an audience in those distant days. Their first records вЂ“ made as the Golden Earrings вЂ“ were in the style history has dubbed Nederbeat, that being the admirably tough Dutch take on the British R&B explosion of the mid-60s.

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