The SONG project started with the realization in Aarhus, after asteroseismic observations with the VLT, that an optimized 1 m telescope might be as efficient as the 8 m VLT telescope with the UVES spectrograph in observing solar-like oscillations in a bright star. This made it realistic to contemplate a network of robotic 1 m telescopes for nearly continuous long-duration observations, including asteroseismology of solar-like stars. The rest is (on-going) history. Four years ago we inaugurated the first node, on Tenerife, the Chinese node has provided some very interesting results and we are looking forward to the first southern node, in Queensland, Australia. We hope that in a few years the stars shall never set over Aarhus University and its collaborators, in a full SONG network.