Fatboy Slim

On Tour

See all 69 pictures

Play Radio

Listen to Fatboy Slim Radio, featuring artists like Psychedeliasmith, Deeds Plus Thoughts, Beats International, The Chemical Brothers and more…

• 
  Search on Spotify

  Yes, it scrobbles! Learn more

24,175,302 plays (1,464,012 listeners)
In your library (0 plays)

Shop now at Amazon | Send Fatboy Slim Ringtones to Cell

More options

• Download
• Amazon
• Send Ringtones to Cell
• Tonefuse Search

Add to my Library

Fatboy Slim (born Quentin Leo Cook on July 31, 1963, also known as Norman Cook) is an English big beat musician.

Quentin Leo Cook grew up in Reigate, Surrey, England, and was educated at Reigate Grammar School. He started a punk fanzine titled Peroxide with his neighbour Andrew Thomas and art student Ian McKay (formerly Laidlaw). Contemporary with his publishing activities, he played drums in Disque Attack (a British new-wave-influenced rock band) for which he later performed lead vocals. At Reigate College he also met Paul Heaton and, at 18, he went to the Brighton Polytechnic to study a BA in English, Politics and Sociology. Although he had begun DJing some years before, it was at this time that he began to develop his skills on the thriving Brighton club scene.

In 1985 Cook’s friend Paul Heaton who lived in Hull had formed a guitar band called The Housemartins. The Housemartins’ bassist had just quit on the eve of their first national tour. Cook had lost interest in the rock scene and could barely play a musical instrument, he agreed to move to Hull to join them. The band soon had a hit single with “Happy Hour”. 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. However, by 1988 they had split up. Heaton and the band’s drummer Dave Hemingway went on to form The Beautiful South, while Cook moved back to Brighton to pursue his interest in the style of music he preferred. It was at this time that he first started working with young studio engineer Simon Thornton, with whom he continues to make records.

Read more… Edit

Popular tags: electronic, dance, big beat, house, electronica  See more

Shouts: 1,113 shouts

Share this artist:

• Send
• Tweet

Top Albums

• You've Come a Long Way, Baby
  Fatboy Slim

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $9.49
  • 7digital $8.99
  • Juno $10.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $10.37
  • eBay Search
• Halfway Between The Gutter and the Stars
  Fatboy Slim

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $9.49
  • 7digital $8.99
  • Juno $10.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $1.50
  • eBay Search
• Palookaville
  Fatboy Slim

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $9.49
  • 7digital $8.99
  • Juno $10.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $0.38
  • eBay Search
• The Greatest Hits ~ Why Try Ha
  Fatboy Slim

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search

Top Tracks

• Last Week
• Last 6 months

1		Praise You			4,284
2		Right Here, Right Now			3,155
3		The Rockafeller Skank			3,095
4		Weapon of Choice			1,870
5		Wonderful Night			1,330
6		Don't Let The Man Get You Down			1,187
7		Sunset (Bird Of Prey)			1,008
8		Slash Dot Dash			821
9		Going Out Of My Head			816
10		Ya Mama			775
11		Right Here Right Now			767
12		Demons			764
13		Gangster Tripping			664
14		Love Island			662
15		Kalifornia			657

Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3

See more