Norman Cook

So, yeah, so my first shedding of a name that I didn't like and that no one could spell or remember.

I did, yeah, yeah.

But it was like, yeah, so joining a band, you can kind of reinvent yourself.

So the first thing I want to do is change my name.

And I just want it in a normal name.

So Norman was just like, I asked my parents once, why did you call me Quentin?

They went, it was the 60s.

And that's all they could come up with.

Because I know your mum was the musical one, right, who got you into... Yeah, my mum was a teacher and musical and a kind of... They're both quite liberal, but my mum, I think, wanted to be a hippie.

but she just couldn't really kind of make the, she always talked about wanting to live in a commune and everything.

And then my dad was, he worked for a glass company and he was, he was like, his granddad was a window cleaner, but during the war he got evacuated to a very posh house in Sussex.

And they sort of, you know, when he came back after the war, he was like going to grammar school and had all these airs and graces.

So he was more interested, yeah, he was more interested in me being really professional.

Hence, he then hated the idea of me being a musician.

He didn't see that as a legitimate career.

And yeah, being a musician was just above being a prostitute, really, in his eyes.

So there was this weird thing that my mum was really nurturing and encouraging, which is great.

And then my dad was really like, pop music is rubbish.

You'll never get anywhere with that, which was a good thing.

That was like the negative inspiration.