Royce de Vries, the son of Peter R. de Vries, said in About Perstribune that he has often heard the song and now plays it regularly himself. “I also have the Top 2000 Spotify list. It’s on it now number three. Then I click on it. If you don’t avoid those kinds of songs, but also listen to them, then it becomes less loaded and more beautiful to listen to something like that.”
According to the jury, the action was a “beautiful, connecting action” and was “extremely powerful and comforting”. Ghislaine Plag (NPO Radio 1), Bart Arens (NPO Radio 2), Frank Dane (Radio 538) and Jaap Brienen (Sublime) were part of the fifteen-member jury, chaired by media expert Ron Vergouwen.
Last year was the simultaneous running of You’ll Never Walk Alone the radio moment of the year on more than 180 radio stations in Europe. The initiative then came from NPO 3FM DJ Sander Hoogendoorn, who wanted to unite people in the corona crisis with the song.
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