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1963–1984: Early life and career beginnings
Cook was born in Bromley, Kent. He was raised in Reigate, Surrey, and educated at Reigate Grammar School, where he took violin lessons alongside future Labour Party leader Keir Starmer. He grew up with a love of music. When he was 14, his brother brought home the first album from the punk band The Damned, which turned him onto that genre; he started attending gigs at the Greyhound pub in Park Lane, Croydon and playing in punk bands. He played drums in Disque Attack, a British new wave-influen...
1985–1995: The Housemartins to The Mighty Dub Katz
In 1985, Heaton formed a guitar band called the Housemartins. Their bassist left on the eve of their first national tour, so Cook agreed to move to Hull to join them. The band soon had a hit single, "Happy Hour", and their two albums, London 0 Hull 4 and The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death, peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart. They also reached number one just before Christmas 1986 with a version of "Caravan of Love", originally a hit the year before for Isley-Jasper-Isley. By...
1996–2008: Fatboy Slim
1. "We just got really, really drunk and wrote down a whole lot of names and then looked at them the next day and went, "that's the one." I really love old blues records. Really old, like pre-war blues. I love blues singers and a lot of them have really stupid names. There was like... Peetie Wheatstraw and Snooks Eaglin, Arthur Big Boy Crudup..." Cook adopted a quasi-blues-style pseudonym Fatboy Slim in 1996. Cook said of the name: "It doesn't mean anything. I've told so many different lies o...
Cook produced the single "Mama Do the Hump" by fellow Brighton band Rizzle Kicksreleased in December 2011 which peaked at number 2 in the charts. Cook has been responsible for successful remixes for Cornershop, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, and Wildchild. In 2008, he did a remix of the track "Amazonas" for the charity Bottletop.
On Saturday, 13 July 2002, Fatboy Slim played at the second of his free open-air concerts on Brighton Beach, the Big Beach Boutique II. Although organisers expected a crowd of around 60,000 people, the event instead attracted an estimated 250,000 who crammed the promenade and beach between Brighton's piers. Local police forced the event to end earl...
Known as DJ Quentox (The OX that Rocks), Cook and DJ Baptiste started putting on youth club hip hop jams in Brighton, sowing the seeds of the city's flourishing hip hop scene today. These primitive 1980s block parties are recalled in the music documentary South Coast, which documents Brighton's cult hip hop scene from its grass roots to the present...
Cook married TV personality Zoe Ball in 1999 at Babington House in Somerset. In January 2003, the couple separated, but three months later they reconciled.[citation needed] Their daughter Nelly May Lois premiered a DJ set as Fat Girl Slim with Camp Bestival during the COVID-19 pandemic to raise money for the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust and The Tru...
Bands 1. The Housemartins (Bassist; 1985–1988) 2. Rockaway Three (1988) 3. Double Trouble (1988–1990) 4. Beats International (1989–1992) 5. Pizzaman (1993–1997) 6. Freak Power (1993–1996) 7. Fried Funk Food (1995) 8. Mighty Dub Katz ("Magic Carpet Ride" dance song [1995] and "Work it, Work it") 9. The Brighton Port Authority (2008–present)
Studio albums 1. Better Living Through Chemistry(1996) 2. You've Come a Long Way, Baby(1998) 3. Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars(2000) 4. Palookaville(2004)
Cook appears in the documentary Tripping (1999) directed by Vikram Jayanti and written by Jeff Taupler about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. He appears as himself in the 2019 satire film Greed.
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Fatboy Slim, nome artístico de Norman Quentin Cook [nota 1] (nascido Quentin Leo Cook em 16 de julho de 1963, Kent, Grã-Bretanha), [2] é um DJ e músico do Reino Unido. Apesar de originalmente baixista na banda de rock The Housemartins , somente atingiu o auge de sua carreira após se personificar como Fatboy Slim .
9 de dez. de 2020 · 1. 3:19. Fatboy Slim, Riva Starr & Beardyman - Eat Sleep Rave Repeat (Calvin Harris Remix) [Official Video] •. 8.7M views • 10 years ago. 2. 3:46. Fatboy Slim ft. Bootsy Collins - Weapon Of...
Norman Quentin Cook, also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English musician, DJ, and record producer who helped to popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s. In the 1980s, Cook was the bassist for the Hull-based indie rock band the Housemartins, who achieved a UK number-one single with their a cappella cover of "Caravan of Love". After the Housemartins split up, Cook formed the ...
