The band was formed by various ex-members of a rock combo called Catapult, which split up in the early 1980s.
They became quite adept at songwriting; Andre Hazes recorded three of their songs for his album Gewoon André, including the number-one hit "Een Beetje Verliefd".
[3] The members did form a number of other bands, one of which, The Monotones, had a hit in Germany and the Netherlands with the song "Mono".
[8] Other well-known songs by the band include a parody of the Dutch classic levenslied "Zuiderzeeballade",[9] and the song "Marie" (about a guy complaining that his girlfriend left him, even though he didn't cheat on her more than once a week), which is cited as an example of what the Leiden dialect sounds like.
[10] Since the mid-2000s, singer Cees Bergman plays live concerts with a classic rock band, Van Beukenstein.