- Mother, Pamela Lyttelton, a keen amateur musician, playing at various times piano, recorder and the guitar. Father George took up the cello while at Cambridge, but put it down again after a university magazine article said 'When George Lyttelton practises the cello, all the cats in the district converge upon his rooms in the belief that one of their members is in distress.'
- He was offered a knighthood, and turned it down.
- In 2001, he joined rock band Radiohead for a seven-hour session while they were recording their album "Amnesiac". They had written to him asking for help, as they were "a bit stuck".
- He got to meet his idol, Louis Armstrong, at the 1948 Nice (France) Jazz Festival. Armstrong always spoke warmly of the man he called "that cat in England who swings his posterior off".
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