Barry Hay
Barry Andrew Hay (born 16 August 1948) is an Indian-born Dutch musician best known as the leading vocalist and frontman for Dutch rock band Golden Earring.
Biography
Hay was born in Faizabad, India to a Dutch Jewish mother and a Scottish commissioned officer. He moved to the Netherlands at the age of eight to live with his mother. He lived in Amsterdam and later in The Hague, attending an English boarding school later in life. After graduating from secondary school, he took courses at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. In the summer of 1967, he joined the Golden Earrings, as they were then called, replacing Frans Krassenburg. Hay created the cover art for some of Golden Earring's albums.
He has also made two solo albums, Only Parrots Frogs and Angels (1972) and Victory of Bad Taste (1987), but both met with little success.
In 1994, he sang lead vocals and played alto flute on the Ayreon song "Sail Away to Avalon," the single from the latter's debut album, The Final Experiment.
In 2001, Hay left The Hague and moved back to Amsterdam. He voices Rock Zilla, in the Dutch version of Gene Simmons' cartoon series My Dad The Rock Star and appears in a commercial for prescription sunglasses.
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- The Big Band Theory released: 2008
- Only Parrots, Frogs & Angels released: 1999
- Victory of Bad Taste released: 1987
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Summer in The City
by: Barry HayHot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirt and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seen to be a shadow in the city
All around people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk hotter than a match head
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Despite the heat it will be alright
and babe, don't you know it's a pity
The days can't be like the night
In the summer in the city
In the summer in the city
Cool town, Evening in the city
Dressed so fine and looking so pretty
cool cat, looking for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city
Till I'm weekzin like a bus stop
Runing up the stairs gonna meet ya on the roof top
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Despite the heat it will be alright
and babe, don't you know it's a pity
The days can't be like the night
In the summer in the city
In the summer in the city
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Despite the heat it will be alright
and babe, don't you know it's a pity
The days can't be like the night
In the summer in the city
In the summer in the city
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