Norman Cook

Yeah, so I was 14 when punk came out.

And so you would have been 10.

10.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I wanted to be like a punk rocker and tough and hard, but I'm a middle-class kid from suburban Surrey.

So I tried, but my sister used to go, you're just too pretty to be a punk rocker.

She said, you look more like Julie Andrews.

That was one of my nicknames, was Julie, because she said I looked more like Julie Andrews than Sid Vicious.

But...

We weren't allowed to, at school you couldn't dye your hair, so we used to dye it with poster paints at weekends and then wash it out during the week.

Yeah, it's not so good when you sweat.

If you're wearing post-painting your hair and you sweat, it kind of sort of comes down.

So I was 14 in 1977.

Yeah.

Let's talk about that.

I lived... Well, not clubbing, just going to see bands.

But I was lucky enough to be one stop from Croydon and there was a club in Croydon called The Greyhound, which used to have punk bands on every Sunday night.

And somehow...

I managed to get a membership card for this club, which said, certified that I was over 18.