(CBS 11) - Today's song is still as good today as it was when it was first released nearly 50 years ago. Shocking Blue was a rock group from The Hague, Netherlands. Founded in 1967, the group ...

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They fucked up the opening line. That might be my favorite thing about it. Shocking Blue were Dutch, and they made extremely catchy and efficient garage-pop. They knew how English-language pop music ...

In 1970, the Dutch rock group Shocking Blue hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Venus.” The group made history as the first-ever Dutch band to top the coveted U.S. music chart, per The Current.

UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: (AUSTRALIA OUT) Photo of Cor VAN DER BEEK, Robbie VAN LEEUWEN, Klaasje van der Wal and Mariska VERES - SHOCKING BLUE. (Photo by GAB Archive/Redferns) I remember as a teen ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. Recently I penned a story about the Dutch classic rock group Shocking ...