In SCOPE’s celebrity Blast from the Past, Dave from the band Son of Dork gets reunited with a Rubik’s Cube. So does it still baffle him?

“I had one of these for years and years,” he says. “This is insane man. These are wicked. Look - it’s got 1980 written on it. I wasn’t even born in 1980, how good is that?” Dave tells SCOPE he was about six when he got his first Rubik’s Cube, but he couldn’t complete it. “I got one side, then I left it to mother and she did it,” he says.

So Danann wants to know did he ever cheat? Did he ever take the cube apart and put it back together? “Nooo… never”, says Dave with a  grin.

So, if you do the corners of a Rubik’s Cube first, does the rest then all fit into place? "That’s what people who think they’re geniuses at it say to you,” says Dave. “They’re just liars, they just probably took it apart and put it together themselves anyway.”

Son of Dork

Son Of Dork was formed by James Bourne in 2005 when the pop band he was in – Busted –broke up. Their debut album, Welcome to Loserville, was released in November 2005 and reached 35 in the UK charts.

Rubik’s Cube

The Rubik’s Cube was the brainchild of Hungarian designer and inventor Erno Rubik. When it came out in 1977, it quickly became the most popular puzzle in history and inspired a huge craze. The idea is to line up all of the little cubes in colour order so that when completed, each full face of the cube has a solid colour.

Learn more:

Visit the Rubik’s Cube website

Read all about Rubik’s Cube maths

See Son of Dork on the Web