Shocking Blue "Comeback” Recorded Live At The Star Dancing, Den Helder, Netherlands
Shocking Blue was founded in 1967 by Robbie van Leeuwen. The group had a minor hit in 1968 with “Lucy Brown is Back in Town”. After Fred de Wilde left in 1968, Mariska Veres took over the vocals and the group charted a world-wide hit with the song “Venus”, which peaked at No. 3 in the Netherlands in the fall of 1969. The song was released in America and Great Britain at the end of the year, and it reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970. It subsequently sold 350,000 copies in Germany, and topped the U.S. chart for three weeks, the first song from the Netherlands to do so. It sold over one million copies there by January 1970, and received a gold record awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America. Global sales exceeded five million copies.
At the end of 1984, Shocking Blue reunited for two concerts at a "Back-to-the-Sixties" festival. It proved to be the nights to remember: van Leeuwen still had style, and Mariska Veres still had one of the greatest female rock voices. The band's interpretations of Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit" were just as strong as their own songs.
According to the Dutch Shocking Blue page, in September of 1993 Mariska Veres breathed new life into Shocking Blue. But none of the former musicians returned. Robbie van Leeuwen gave Mariska the permission to use the name "Shocking Blue" for her group and produced their CD-single "Body & Soul", released in 1994. The group attends many sixties-and-seventies-festivals, especially in Germany.
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