My name is Diederick Rebel (what’s in a name?). My role in the band is to play George’s part of the Fab Four. I was born in 1953, so I actually experienced the rise of The Beatles myself through my parents’ Philips tube radio.

 In my teens I didn’t like The Beatles very much. I liked the Stones better. The Stones were really tough guys in my book. I played songs by The Stones in my school band as well as songs by The Cream, The Kinks, etc. Many years later I realised that I found the music by The Beatles far more interesting. Since the early 90s I picked up playing in several cover bands again.

 After a difficult period in my life I asked a few friends in the music scene if they would like to do some Beatles songs with me just to get back to playing again. We had a few rehearsals and during our next gig in our club ‘Highlands’ in the town of IJsselstein, we had so much fun that we immediately decided to do more of this!

At some point in time we came to the idea of starting a professional band with a website of our own. The first name of our band was ‘Get Back’. But when we applied for a domain name on the internet we found out that there were dozens of Beatles Tribute bands with that name. After a night of brainstorming we decided to adopt the name ‘One after 909’, the title of one of The Beatles’ early recordings. This song, in the version of the rooftop concert, became one of our favourites, as it sounds really well!

We had our launch party in club ‘Highlands’ on 27 February 2010. Since then things only went up. I hope to play in this band for many more years since it is great fun and I hope you will enjoy this too!