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The initial line-up consisted ofRobbie van Leeuwen (guitar, sitar and backing vocals) (1967–1973) Mint Royale remixed Shocking Blue's version of "Acka Raga" (itself a cover from John Mayer and Joe Harriott's Indo-Jazz Fusions song of the same name) for their 1999 track "From Rusholme with Love", featured in several films of the time. The Prodigy covered the song "Love Buzz" on their 2004 album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned but called it "Phoenix". Nirvana covered the song "Love Buzz" as their debut single in 1988, and it also appeared on their 1989 album Bleach. Bananarama covered "Venus" in 1986, hitting number one in the US and the UK Top 10 (#8).Mariska Veres died of cancer on 2 December 2006. They made another comeback in 1984, and later recorded "Jury and the Judge" with "I Am Hanging on to Love" on B-side, and yet another unreleased song "Time Is a Jetplane" in 1986.
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They did however, perform live with their earliest songs such as "Venus" and "Never Marry a Railroad Man" in 1980. However, the song was never released for unknown reasons. Shocking Blue made a comeback in 1979, and recorded "Louise" as their first single since their breakup back in 1974. Other known singles were "Tell It Like It Is" (1975), Dusty Springfield's "Little By Little" (1976), and "Too Young" (1978). Her singles "Take Me High" (1975) and "Lovin' You" (1976) were mainly popular in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In 1974 Mariska Veres left the group to start a solo career until 1982. Later songs – including "Hello Darkness" (1970), "Shocking You", "Blossom Lady" and "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" (1971), "Inkpot", "Rock in the Sea" and "Eve and the Apple" (1972) and "Oh Lord" (1973) were successful in Europe, Latin America and Asia, but failed to chart in the U.S. "Venus" was followed by "Mighty Joe" (flip-side "Wild Wind") in 1969 and "Never Marry a Railroad Man" (flip-side "Roll Engine Roll") in 1970, which both sold over a million records. Shocking Blue's songs also received quite a large amount of radio airplay on Dutch channels. Other hits include "Send Me a Postcard" in 1968/69 and "Long and Lonesome Road" (often mistakenly named as "Long Lonesome Road") in 1969. The song was based on "The Banjo Song" (1963) by The Big 3. Global sales exceeded five million copies. It sold over one million copies there by January 1970, and received a gold record awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America.
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chart for three weeks, the first song from the Netherlands to do so. It subsequently sold 350,000 copies in Germany, and topped the U.S. After Mariska Veres took over the vocals, the group charted a world-wide hit with the song "Venus", which peaked at No. The group had a minor hit in 1968 with "Lucy Brown is Back in Town". Shocking Blue was founded in 1967 by Robbie van Leeuwen. Problems playing this file? See media help.