Top 2000

The official start of the top 2000

Best of the previous seasons

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Teams: Angela Groothuizen and Nabil Aoulad Ayad, Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte and Marian Mudder, Jurgen van den Berg and Merel Koman.

A fascinating story by Robbie Robertson, the guitarist and songwriter of The Band, who passed away this year, about the song 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'. We go to Jamaica and dive into the musical roots of Bob Marley. And songwriter Holly Knight wrote no fewer than 9 songs for Tina Turner, she talks about their collaboration and the creation of, among other things, 'The Best'.

Teams: S10 and Froukje, Henry van Loon and Fernando Halman, Mylou Frencken and Joost Oomen.

The song 'Nine Million Bicycles' by Katie Melua was written by Mike Batt, he talks about how he was inspired after visiting the city of Beijing with Katie. We go to Nashville where Bill Kelly, the former singer of The Buoys, talks about 'Timothy', a song by Rupert Holmes about cannibalism. We see how he discovered the church after years of sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll. Nowadays he scores hits with gospel songs.

Teams: Herman Brusselmans and Sophie Frankenmolen, Sef and Steven Kazàn, Eva Koreman and Jasper Demollin.

The entire episode is almost entirely dedicated to the two times in 1967 that Jimi Hendrix came to the Netherlands. Hendrix made a great impression on the Dutch public, as we hear from presenter Judith Bosch, who welcomed him to her program Fanclub; Wim van Krimpen organized the Hippy Happy fair in Rotterdam and booked the only Dutch performance by Jimi Hendrix; In 1967, Lex Harding was not only a radio DJ, but also a band manager and managed to capture Hendrix on film. Finally, Jules Deelder tells a wonderful story about an encounter with his guitar god, who even slept with him.

Morad El Ouakili & Desray, Samya Hafsaoui & Paul Elstak, Jip van den Toorn & Jeroen Spitzenberger will have their music knowledge tested. The best couples will meet again in the final broadcast.

Singer Seal about the song Kiss from a rose. Tom Odell shows his personal side from behind the piano. Icelandic singer Nanna Bryndís scored the mega hit Little Talks with her band Monsters and Men. We talk to her about her solo career.

Géza Weisz & Jon Karthaus, Bettina Holwerda & Anne-Marie Jung and Carolina Dijkhuizen & Ramon Brugman have their music knowledge tested.

With guitarist Graham Coxon we go from his band Blur to his new project The Waeve. Beautiful old images of singer Froukje who was on the verge of breaking through. And in San Francisco the Scottish funk group Average White Band plays and they tell us all about their hit Pick up the pieces.

Daniël Kolf & Marlayne Sahupala, Blanks & Martin Rombouts and Roos Schlikker & Jan Kooijman have their music knowledge tested.

The latest album by English rock band Nothing But Thieves came about in a special way. Did Madonna start her career with French singer Patrick Hernandez? And we talk to singer Maan about the song 'Beloof je dat' and her many musical collaborations.