WHEN THE LADY SMILES Â 
 Golden Earring had an international hit song in 1973 with "Radar Love", one of the great road songs that I still hear regularly on the radio.  In 1982, they had another big hit with "Twilight Zone"; their fabulous, high-concept video intermingled a spy story that featured a topless model, callous treatment of a dead body, and a brutal injection of some sort of drug by a dancing vixen; along with concert footage and several arty shots.  The video for their follow-up hit in 1984, "When the Lady Smiles" was just as controversial; it featured a sexual attack on a nun that showed black lingerie under her habit.  I probably have a dozen of their albums, and they are all enjoyable.  (January 2013)  |