Norman Cook

Because, you know, in my early years, all I wanted to do was prove my dad wrong.

Which is a strong, it's a powerful thing.

Yeah, so between the two of them, that's how I ended up.

But also, at the same time, my dad was a consummate show-off and loved dressing up and being stupid.

Obviously none of that rubbed off on me.

It's a shame that.

Yeah.

So we were a family.

My uncle's a DJ and he was in pop bands.

My uncle Dennis, yeah.

Dennis?

Uncle Dennis, yeah.

Well, he was like... I don't know, but when my dad was having a row with me, he said, you know, he was always like, do you want to end up like your Uncle Dennis?

And I was like, yeah, he's been more fun than you.

And he's, you know, drives a sports car.

This is like early 70s.

And he was a DJ and he'd been in bands in the 60s and then he was DJing.

And so he was always, yeah, he was, again, it's like positives and negative, either role models or just, you know, your inspiration.

So, yeah, my dad definitely went for the, you know, negative, deem everything that I liked as rubbish and it makes me want to do it more.

For me, it was like all the rest of my family seemed to have more fun.