Herman Brood (pronounced "Broat" /bro:t/; Zwolle, November 5, 1946 ? Amsterdam, July 11, 2001) was a Dutch musician, painter and media personality. Brood was the Dutch personification of "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll". After playing piano in Cuby and the Blizzards and several other bands since 1964, Brood started his own group, Herman Brood and His Wild Romance, in 1977. The band had made their first, and best known, album Shpritsz?a play on the German word for syringe?in 1978 This album contained anti?drug use songs like "Dope Sucks", but also "Saturday Night". "Saturday Night" was their first hit single.