Norman Cook

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939 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 22 Jun

Norman Cook’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Begin Again with Davina McCall · Moments: Father's Day Special · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

And he went, Dad, you've got to stop wearing that thing.

I know it's just around the house, but yeah.

And I said, what's wrong with you?

And he said, my slippers.

I said, you know, they're my ironic old man slippers.

And he looked at me and he just went, Dad, there's nothing ironic about an old man wearing old man slippers.

My dad thought that being a musician was just above being a prostitute, really, in his eyes.

So all I wanted to do was prove my dad wrong.

Your first two albums were like... And I remember on the news, Donny Osmond is playing crazy arses.

And eight-year-old me just went, I want to do that.

Can we talk about Woodstock?

There was footage of my trailer on fire.

And in Brighton, the woman from the council said, it was perceived that your crowd was sort of good-natured.

If this had been an Oasis gig, we would have been...

I remember when I told my manager, he went, if you and Zoe are a couple, he said, your life is never going to be the same.

Wait, tell me why.

We probably actually met first when we were a couple.

There was nights when I was struggling to speak and to walk, and the people around me were like, are you going to be all right?

I'm like, get me on the stage, I'll be fine.

It's only when you come off, you realise how drunk you are.

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