Freddy said that the kidnappers decided not to hold out for more money because they couldn't take any more of his jokes. Or the wrong moment. They're so stupid. Playing with sounds is a musical sort of game. Like playing with language.
Music is a language.
There are no Freddy jokes. Heineken's ballads are sincere and tuneful, as professional as the rest of the record, nothing to sneer at. The album was misunderstood, ignored and underrated and is no longer in anybody's catalogue. Having produced it, he found himself a song-plugger, a role for which he was well suited. This man could sell beer in Bordeaux.