With its acoustic guitar intro, piano riff and haunting vocals by Mariska Veres - most memorably on the chorus, "I'm your Venus, I'm your fire, at your desire" - the single "Venus", by the Dutch ...

Mariska Veres, the voice and face behind Shocking Blue’s international hit Venus, merits an affectionate obituary in the Parool, under the headline ‘1970s Sex Bomb’. Mariske, who was 59, died of ...