NORMAN COOK: A BIOGRAPHY

Quinten Cook (his original name) was born in Brighton. In the '80's he bgan his carrer with the Housemartins; an acapella band who make music purly with their vocal talents. They made their no. 1 song "Caravan of Love" After the break-up the break-up of them, he went on to form Beats International with the cahrt topping "Dub be Good to Me" After this he went on under the names of Freakpower, Mighty Dub Katz, Norman Cook presents Wildski

and Fried Funk Food. Freakpower's "Tune in, Turn on, Drop out" only went to no. 2 on the charts. After this he became the one and only... Fatboy Slim (the name, apparently, came into his head at 5am in the morning!)
He came up with his debut album: Better Living Through Chemistry one week in '97 at his "House of Love" this album had Single releases of the following: Santa Cruz, Going Out of my Head, Everybody Needs a 303 and Punk to Funk. After the success of this he went on to make "You've Come a Long Way, Baby". This too had many singles including  Right Here, Right Now, The Rockerfeller Skank, Gangster Tripping and Praise You. Coming up later this year, he will be striking the shelves with a brand new album featuring Macy Gray. The latest info is that old Fatboy will become a Father by Christmas. Last year he married Zoe Ball in august and has not been up to much music wise since then.

All this fame asides, he has been famous with remixes as opposed to just his own material. Just check out his hemixes of the Beastie Boys 'Bodymovin' and Eric B + Rakims 'I know you got soul'. There are some other great remixes of his available such as Cornershops "Brimful of Asha"