Norman Cook

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500 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 25 Jul

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Desert Island Discs · Norman Cook, DJ and musician · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

And when I used to go stay with my nan, they would allow me to sit in.

And now this, for me, it was just like the most exciting thing ever.

There's a drum kit, there's amplifiers.

So I watched them rehearse.

And one afternoon, they spent the whole afternoon rehearsing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Oobla Deebla Da.

A couple of days later, I hear Oobla Deebla Da on the radio and I went, oh, that's my uncle's band.

And they said, your uncle's in the Beatles.

I went, yeah, yeah, they rehearse at my nan's house.

And I wasn't aware of the concept of a cover version at this point.

If I have golden slumbers, it's going to go into Carrie that way at some point.

And in fact, most of Side 2's are medleys, so I might be able to squeeze that onto the MP3 and get five tracks for the price of one.

That was quite bizarre.

There's certain people, he's lovely, but there's certain people you just never get over the fact that that is Paul McCartney.

But it was quite surreal because we live on the beach.

He would just stroll into my kitchen wearing speedos and just say, oh, yeah.

I won't do an impersonation of him.

Every time I talk to him, I would always be humming a Beatles tune in my head and think to myself, don't do it out loud, don't do it out loud.

She was a teacher.

She was lovely.

I've lost both my parents in the last year, so it's... I'm sorry.

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