The album sooner or later (1974) Robert Long established his name as a singer of self-written songs with provocative lyrics. So Long was the first Dutch gay love sang and kicked it against sacred cows like the church, the pope and the Evangelical Broadcasting. Long (real name: Bob Leverman, his stage name comes from its length, 1.92 m) was first singer of the English rock band Unit Gloria, but his
… heart was with the listening song. Early eighties, Long controversy with some controversial theater shows, took a couple of best-selling albums. In 1988 he starred in the musical Chekhov, for which he also wrote some of the lyrics. Television viewers got to know him as especially the experienced television presenter of the language game Ten for language.more