“At the time an insurance company had used the Shostakovich piece for a television commercial and at the last second I decided to put it on the album. I knew that there was a big European game coming up, Ajax against Bayern Munich, so I bought a minute of live TV coverage during the break. Ajax did me a huge favour and scored just before half time. The next week I sold 200,000 CDs.”
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