Cut (Golden Earring album)

Cut
Studio album by
Released10 September 1982
GenrePop rock
Length38:35
LabelCapitol, 21/Polygram (US) Mercury
ProducerShell Schellekens
Golden Earring chronology
2nd Live
(1981)
Cut
(1982)
N.E.W.S.
(1984)
Singles from Cut
  1. "Twilight Zone"
    Released: 23 August 1982
  2. "The Devil Made Me Do It"
    Released: 17 December 1982
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Cut is the sixteenth studio album by Dutch hard rock band Golden Earring, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music). The album spawned the hit song "Twilight Zone," which reached No. 1 in the Netherlands and No. 1 in the United States on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks (it reached No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.)

The album's cover image is the 1964 photo Cutting the Card Quickly taken by M.I.T. Professor "Doc" Edgerton showing the jack of diamonds playing card being shredded by a bullet. The image is recreated repeatedly in the music video of "Twilight Zone" in which the card represents the life of the rogue espionage agent.