André Rieu: 'We want to hug each other, and sing together and dance together'
Andre Rieu has just released Jolly Holiday, a live CD and DVD of last year’s Christmas concert in Maastricht. Picture:: Ian West/PA Wire
André Rieu sounds a bit fed up, and who could blame him? The Dutch musician, who speaks six languages, is particularly eloquent in conveying the frustration we all feel at the moment, and it is refreshing to hear him use a particularly apt swear word to encapsulate it.
“When people speak about the ‘new normal’ it makes me so angry. This ‘distance’ shit….we are not born to be at a distance from each other. We want to hug each other, to kiss each other and to be next to each other, and sing together and dance together and cry together. That is what we want in life, not this. It is terrible, all the stories you hear about all the elderly people dying alone in nursing homes. It is awful.”
