Together with his school friend Lennaert Nijgh Boudewijn de Groot was responsible for the best English listening songs of the sixties. Nijgh wrote the lyrics, De Groot composed the music and sang. In the song Goodnight Mister the President showed Nijgh and Grotius, the Dutch answer to the American protest generation led by Bob Dylan. Excelling they did especially poetic, beautifully arranged songs
… as Drowned and Testament. After the successful start were the two quarreled. In the decades after the career of De Groot was marked by doubt, aimlessness and restlessness. Only at the end of the nineties he himself hesitating with new material and successful tours. Its popularity proved remain high. His song Evening captured first place in the Top 100 of All Time in 2005.more
