Norman Cook
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And somehow I persuaded my parents that I was allowed out every Sunday night to go to see punk bands.
And yeah, so during...
Yeah, so around the time of my GCC, I was going every Sunday to the Croydon Greyhound and seeing the Clash and the Adverts and the Buzzcocks and the Slits.
I saw pretty much everyone apart from the Sex Pistols.
And it was great.
I'd sort of fallen in love with music, pop music as a thing.
Yeah.
But then during the glam thing, it's like, which way do you go?
Are you like T-Rex and David Bowie or are you like The Sweet and Slade?
And it was like... And in the midst of it, it's like... But out of that came punk rock.
And then that was just like, oh, this is my groove.
It's got...
noisy music that annoys my dad.
It's got rebellion.
It's got, you know, it's freedom.
All those things that you want when you're 14.
So that just, again, another life-changing moment.
My brother brought home the first Damned album.
Wow.
It must have been the beginning of 1977.