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On this day, 6 March 1974, Dutch rocker Golden Earring played Cardiff’s Top Rank on their Moontan tour. Support was provided by Alquin.

During 1973–74, when their song "Radar Love" was a hit, they had Kiss and Aerosmith as their opening acts. While signed to the UK Track Records label, the band rented the superb quadraphonic sound system normally used exclusively by the Who.

Formed in 1961 in The Hague as The Tornados. They achieved worldwide fame with their international hit songs "Radar Love" in 1973, which went to number one on the Dutch chart, reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, and went to number thirteen on the United States chart, "Twilight Zone" in 1982, and "When the Lady Smiles" in 1984. During their career they had nearly 30 top-ten singles on the Dutch charts and released 25 studio albums.

The band went through a number of early line-up changes until settling on a stable line-up in 1970, consisting of Rinus Gerritsen (bass and keyboards), George Kooymans (vocals and guitar), Barry Hay (vocals, guitar, flute and saxophone), and Cesar Zuiderwijk (drums and percussion), which remained unchanged until the band broke up in 2021 following the diagnosis of Kooymans with ALS. A number of other musicians also appeared in short stints with the band over its history as well.

Teen heartthrob Adam Faith played Cardiff’s Gaumont Theatre.
Also on the bill were John Barry Seven, Johnny Worth, The Honeys, and Johnny Le Roy.
Terence Nelhams Wright, better known as Adam Faith, was an English teen idol, singer, actor and was one of the most charted acts of the 1960s.

Faith managed to lodge twenty consecutive single releases on the UK Singles Chart, starting with "What Do You Want?" in November 1959 and culminating with "I Love Being in Love With You" in mid-1964; this was quite a feat for a British artist of Faith's era.

During the 1970s, Faith went into music management, managing Leo Sayer among others.
Faith negotiated an advance for his own comeback album with Warner Bros. Records, using half of it to record the album I Survive(which failed to chart) and the other half to finance Sayer.

Faith and his former drummer David Courtney co-produced Sayer's initial hits "The Show Must Go On" and "One Man Band". Sayer later said in an interview with British newspaper The Daily Telegraph that "[Faith] handled everything for me, but although he was a very good mentor, he was less trustworthy with my money. In the end, Adam Faith made more out of Leo Sayer than I did."