- Known for his hedonistic lifestyle of "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll", Brood was an enfant terrible and a cultural figure whose suicide by jumping from a hotel roof, apparently influenced by a failure to kick his drug and alcohol habit, strengthened his controversial status; according to a poll organised to celebrate fifty years of Dutch popular music, it was the most significant event in its history.
- Singer, Painter
- Jumped from the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton hotel. This is the same hotel where John Lennon and Yoko Ono had their bed-in in 1969.
- Daughter Brenda
- Daughter Lola
- Daughter Holly
- Brood was a Dutch musician, painter, actor and poet.
- He founded beat band The Moans in 1964, which would later become Long Tall Ernie and the Shakers.
- In 2010 the Catastrophic Theatre Company collaborated with Frank Black on a rock opera based on the Bluefinger album. The opera's first performance, with Matt Kelly portraying Brood, was on 12 November 2010 in Houston, Texas.
- He started playing the piano at age 12.
- For a number of years Brood was in jail (for dealing LSD), or abroad, and had a number of short-term engagements (with The Studs, the Flash & Dance Band, Vitesse).
- Brood was asked to play with Cuby and the Blizzards, but was removed by management when the record company discovered he used drugs.
- As a musician he achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, and was called "the greatest and only Dutch rock 'n' roll star".
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