Norman Cook

You know, all my aunts and uncles and everything, they're a right laugh.

And they were proper old school cockanoos.

And every Saturday we'd all get together and they would play rummy and then they would get drunk and then they would dance around the room.

And, yeah, I thought that was much better than, you know, sitting in the drawing room with Peter reading The Guardian, you know.

There was...

Have you heard of Peter, Paul and Mary?

And they were like the kind of saccharine version of Bob Dylan.

So it's Peter, Paul, my mum and my dad put Peter, Paul and Mary and my dad's wife, Kenny's born, is Jasmine and Oscar Peterson.

And then, but we all agreed on the Carpenters and the Beatles.

They were the two that all the whole family liked.

And so that was my main, but they, yeah, they weren't that into, their record collection was like that big.

as soon as I could afford it.

First record was Devil Gate Drive by Suzie Quatro, which I think... I loved Suzie Quatro.

She was a great... I think my first direction might have been... Yeah, me too.

Yeah, you know, a woman in leather who plays bass guitar.

Yeah.

And the attitude, you know.

So, yeah, Devil Gate Drive, that was the first record I bought.

It was just one of those moments.

It wasn't a sexual thing for me.