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82. I keep running across more info on artists whose careers George has helped,

even when I don't expect to.

I was checking Google today for any news about George, and one of the results was a YouTube video of Henk Westbroek with George in a 2009 performance. Wikipedia on Westbroek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henk_Westbroek

I'd never heard of Westbroek before. He wasn't named in the video title, but the song title was there, and the name of the band, Het Goede Doel, that Westbroek was best known for. I hadn't heard of the band, either, but according to Wikipedia it was one of the most successful Dutch-language bands of the 1980s. Westbroek also had a successful solo career after the band broke up in 1991.

George had helped him launch his solo career, writing the music for Westbroek's first hit single in that solo career, and playing guitar and providing backing vocals.

The first video below, with the hit George helped him write, is the one I found unexpectedly today, video of a 2009 reunion concert with George singing along and playing guitar (including a nice guitar solo). Below that is Westbroek's performance of the same song on the Dutch TV show Countdown in 1992, with George not on stage with him then.

While I was googling this, I also ran across a tweet from Westbroek in February of last year, shortly after the terrible news of George being diagnosed with ALS was announced:

Link to tweet

George Kooymans wrote the music, sang along and played guitar on my first solo single. Title: Where she walks

via @YouTube