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Naked II

1997 album by Golden Earring

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ2183553 ↗
Source-derived summary

Naked II is the second live acoustic album and fifth live overall album by Dutch hard rock band Golden Earring, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music). The album was not issued in the U.S.

Track listing

All songs written by Hay and Kooymans except where noted.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Naked II” as 1997 album by Golden Earring. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Naked, album and Golden.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-11-09. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Naked, album and Golden providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2183553. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Naked II” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.