In 2025, Ultimate Classic Rock ranked “Radar Love” as one of the top classic rock songs of all time. “Built around an insistent rhythm and riff, the song rides alongside its protagonist, who has been ‘driving all night, hands wet on the wheel’ while listening to Brenda Lee's ‘Comin' On Strong,’” the outlet wrote of the radio hit.
Written by George Kooymans and Barry Hay, “Radar Love” was a long-overdue hit for Golden Earring, eight albums in.
“At first, the opening line was ‘I’m sitting in a bathtub.’ And I thought, ‘That’s hardly masculine,’” Hay recalled. “Then I came up with sitting in a car. It took me about three hours to write the lyrics, which is pretty swift. I remember our tour manager coming back from the night out, this was like five in the morning or something. And he read the lyrics and he said, ‘These are the probably the best lyrics you ever wrote and you will ever write.’“
While it became a classic driving song, Hay did confirm that the narrator of “Radar Love” dies en route to see his love and that their cosmic connection continues in an afterlife.
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“We didn’t know what we were doing then,” he shared. “We were thinking about breaking up the band, and the shows weren’t going that well in Holland, and we thought, ‘Let’s just make one album and see what happens, if it’s good we’ll stick together and if it bombs we’ll split up and start doing different things.’ So anyway the rest is history.”
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