Biografia de mariska veres shocking
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Shocking Blue
Dutch rock band
For the 2010 Dutch film, see Shocking Blue (film).
Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in The Hague in 1967. They were part of the Nederbeat movement in the Netherlands. The band had a string of hit songs during the counterculture movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, including "Send Me a Postcard" and "Venus", which became their biggest hit and reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and many other countries during 1969 and 1970. The band sold 13 million records by 1973 but disbanded in 1974.[2] Together with Golden Earring, they are considered the most successful Nederbeat band, because they had their best hits charted abroad and especially in the United States.
History
[edit]Original era
[edit]Shocking Blue was founded in 1967 by the Motions guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen. Other members of the group at this time were Fred de Wilde, Klaasje van der Wal (1 February 1949 – 12 February 2018)[3] and Cor
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The Dutch quartet Shocking Blue are renowned the world over for their chart-topping single “Venus” and rightly so. The American release of their second album “At Home” was creatively re-titled as “The Shocking Blue” with a nekkid group cover shot and dropped the terrifyingly mythic “I’ll Write Your Name Through The Fire” but more than made up for it with the inclusion of two excellent heavy singles (“Mighty Joe” and “Send Me A Postcard”) that shore up the “The Shocking Blue” as an album stunning in its unrepentant simplicity of execution in a most screamingly barebones representation of rock’n’roll as refracted through a highly original and infectious take on the acid rock superstar sounds of the day.
Not least of all due to the urgency of the vocal delivery of Mariska Veres. Veres was a young, curvaceous and large-eyed Lorelei with a bosom ripe to the point of bursting and a voice to match that cuts through everything Teutonic as hell while
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The Very Best of Shocking Blue - Singles A's and B's
Be careful — once you realize that there was a lot more to Shocking Blue than “Venus” or “Mighty Joe,” it’s easy to fall beneath the spell of their infectious Dutch psychedelia (and even easier to fall for their doe-eyed, husky-voiced singer Mariska Veres). This outstanding 1998 compilation boasts nearly 50 single-tracks - the first half samling the A-sides and the second half covering the B-sides. As it should, Singles A’s and B’s kicks off with 1969’s “Venus.” Mysteriously, it was the band’s only hit in amerika, enjoying a resurgence in popularity following Bananarama’s successful 1986 cover. “Send Me a Postcard” should have been bigger than Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” — it rocked on the same opening riff, droned on a similarly haunting kroppsdel, played for an eighth of the length and is unarguably catchier. 1972’s “Inkpot” was more earthy than trippy, though it still managed to put a sitar through a wah-wah fotspak.