While the Dutch Invasion never caught on the way the British Invasion did, it still produced lots of great music by a gaggle of bands from the Netherlands who all deserve to better known than they are ...

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 ...

With a unique “Marie Antoinette” draft collar, which seals snugly around the neck with a zipper on one shoulder and Velcro on the other, the Shocking Blue creates a luxurious cocoon good enough for a ...

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.