BUCK HAS ‘SMALL-SCALE’ OCD
R.E.M. star PETER BUCK regrets watching OKLAHOMA! as a child - because the musical sparked off a compulsive obsession with counting.
The guitarist was 12 years old when he first saw the movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, and ever since he has sung the signature tune when he hears a four-syllable word.
He admits the condition qualifies as "small-scale" obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), but is convinced it’s genetic - because his daughter suffers the same affliction.
Buck tells Mojo magazine, "I’m kinda small-scale OCD-ish. I have this counting thing: I unfortunately watched the movie Oklahoma! when I was 12, and whenever I hear a four-syllable word, in my head I sing the song, ‘Ok-la-ho-ma…’. I told one of my daughters and she went, ‘Oh God, I do that too.’ It must be genetic."
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