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BIOGRAPHY
Norman Quentin Cook (born Quentin Leo Cook on 31 July 1963), also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English DJ, musician and record producer/mixer.
As a solo electronic act, he has won ten MTV Video Music Awards and two Brit Awards. His records as Fatboy Slim also helped to popularise the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s.
Cook first rose to fame in the 1980s as the bassist of the indie rock band The Housemartins who scored a UK number-one single with their a cappella cover of Isley-Jasper-Isley's "Caravan of Love". After the band split, Cook formed Beats International whose début album spawned their signature hit, "Dub Be Good to Me", which was another UK number-one as well as going on to become the seventh best-selling single of 1990 in the UK. Cook then went on to join numerous other acts, including Freak Power, Pizzaman, and The Mighty Dub Katz, to moderate success.
Cook adopted the Fatboy Slim moniker in 1996 and released Better Living Through Chemistry to critical acclaim. Follow-ups You've Come a Long Way, Baby; Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars; and Palookaville, as well as their associated singles, including "The Rockafeller Skank"; "Praise You"; "Right Here, Right Now"; "Weapon of Choice"; and "Wonderful Night", were also met with positive reviews and commercial success.
In 2008, Cook founded a project called The Brighton Port Authority. Cook has been responsible for successful remixes for Cornershop, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Groove Armada, and Wildchild.
HISTORY
Cook adopted the new pseudonym Fatboy Slim in 1996. Cook says of the name:
"It doesn't mean anything. I've told so many different lies over the years about it I can't actually remember the truth. It's just an oxymoron - a word that can't exist. It kind of suits me - it's kind of goofy and ironic."
The Fatboy Slim album and Cook's second solo album, Better Living Through Chemistry (released through Skint Records), contained the Top 40 UK hit "Everybody Needs a 303". Fatboy Slim's next work was the single "The Rockafeller Skank", released prior to the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby, both of which were released in 1998. "Praise You", also from this album, was Cook's first UK solo number one. Its music video, starring Spike Jonze, won numerous awards. On 9 September 1999, he performed "Praise You" at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards in New York City, and won three awards, including the award for Breakthrough Video. The 2000 album also included "Sunset (Bird of Prey)," whose socially significant video sampled the 1964 "Daisy Girl" campaign ad.
In 2000, Fatboy Slim released his third studio album, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, and featured two collaborations with Macy Gray and "Weapon of Choice", which also was made into an award-winning music video, starring Christopher Walken.[10] At the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, Fatboy Slim won six awards for "Weapon of Choice", the most awards at the ceremony.
In 2003, he produced Crazy Beat and Gene by Gene from the Blur album Think Tank, and in 2004, Palookaville was Cook's first studio album for four years.
Fatboy Slim's greatest hits album, Why Try Harder, was released on 19 June 2006. It comprises eighteen tracks, including ten Top 40 singles, a couple of Number Ones and two exclusive new tracks – "Champion Sound" and "That Old Pair of Jeans".
DISCOGRAPHY
Albums:
Better Living Through Chemistry (1996)
You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998)
Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (2000)
Palookaville (2004)
Here Lies Love (with David Byrne) (2010)
Singles:
1996 «Everybody Needs a 303»
1996 «Punk to Funk»
1997 «Going Out of My Head»
1997 «Everybody Needs a 303 (Remix)»
1998 «The Rockafeller Skank»
1998 «Gangster Trippin»
1999 «Praise You»
1999 «Right Here Right Now»
2000 «Sunset (Bird of Prey)»
2001 «Demons» (feat. Macy Gray)
2001 «Star 69» / «Weapon of Choice»
2001 «Song for Shelter» / «Ya Mama»
2001 «Drop The Hate»
2002 «Retox»
2004 «Slash Dot Dash»
2004 «Wonderful Night»
2005 «The Joker»
2005 «Don't Let The Man Get You Down»
2006 «That Old Pair of Jeans»
2006 «Champion Sound»
2007 «The Greatest Hits Remixed»
2009 «Dance Bitch»
DJ Mixes:
Pete Tong / Fatboy Slim / Paul Oakenfold - Essential Millennium 2 versions 1999
Fatboy Slim & Paul Oakenfold - Essential Selection Vol. One 2 versions 2000
Fatboy Slim And Midfield General - Big Beach Boutique II 9 versions 2002
Live On Brighton Beach 12 versions 2002
Bondi Beach (New Years Eve '06) (CD, Mixed) 2005
Fala Aí! (CD, Comp, Enh, Mixed) 2006
LateNightTales 3 versions 2007
Incredible Adventures In Brazil 4 versions 2008
Dance Bitch (CD, Comp, Mixed) 2009
The Legend Returns 2 versions 2010
Big Beach Bootique 5 6 versions 2012
Dance Harder Bitch (CD, Mixed, Comp) 2012
Fatboy Slim's Bestival Birthday Bash 2013 2 versions 2013
We Are 30 (CD, Mixed) 2013
MORE INFO https://www.discogs.com/artist/3101-Fatboy-Slim
