Shocking Blue

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Shocking Blue
Shocking Blue in 1970
Background information
Origin	The Hague, Netherlands
Genres	Psychedelic rock Nederbeat Garage pop[1]
Years active	1967 (1967)–1974 (1974) (reunions: 1979, 1980, 1984)
Labels	Pink Elephant Polydor Phonogram Polygram Universal Mercury Penny Farthing Colossus
Past members	Mariska Veres Robbie van Leeuwen Fred de Wilde Klaasje van der Wal Cor van der Beek Leo van de Ketterij Martin van Wijk Henk Smitskamp

Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in The Hague in 1967. They were part of the Nederbeat movement in the Netherlands. The band had a string of hit songs during the counterculture movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, including "Send Me a Postcard" and "Venus", which became their biggest hit and reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and many other countries during 1969 and 1970. The band sold 13 million records by 1973 but disbanded in 1974.^[2] Together with Golden Earring, they are considered the most successful Nederbeat band, because they had their best hits charted abroad and especially in the United States.