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Sir Michael is chilled about endless impersonations

Mon 15 Oct 3:20 PM

A small child could impersonate Sir Michael Caine, as the Hollywood legend discovered recently when he invited a friend and his two children, aged four and two, to lunch.

"I opened the door and these two little fellas were standing there and they said: 'You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!'" said Caine in an interview with the Observer Music Monthly. "Their father had put them up to it, but they'd seen the movie (The Italian Job)."

Caine revealed, too, that he is a huge fan of chill out – and has been long before the genre was conceived, amassing somewhere in the region of 1,000 records before "my daughter nicked them all".

"What happened with me was that about 20 years ago, when there was house and rap, I heard (French DJ) Claude Challe from the Buddha Bar, who did this melange of music, and I thought it was great. I used to make tapes and CDs and give them to my friends."

A compilation of Caine's favourite tracks, Cained, is out now on Universal.