Kayak - Ruthless Queen • TROS Top 50 - TopPop

Dutch popgroup Kayak was founded in 1972 by Ton Scherpenzeel (keyboards), Pim Koopman (drums), Max Werner (vocals), Jean Michel Marion (bass guitar) and Johan Slager (guitar). Later Marion was replaced by Cees van Leeuwen. In 1978 Edward Reekers, who had been a fan of the group for years, became the new singer. Peter Scherpenzeel (Ton’s brother and former roadie of the band) became the new bassist and two background singers were also hired: Irene Linders (pop journalist and partner of Ton Scherpenzeel) and Katherine Lapthorn (partner of Peter Scherpenzeel). The result was a huge success with the album ’Phantom of the night’ and especially with the single ’Ruthless Queen’ which reached #6 in the Dutch top-40. This perfomance was recorded and broadcast by TROS Television in the program TROS Top 50 Rock Planet on24 February 1979. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.