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Norman Quentin Cook [1] (born Quentin Leo Cook, 31 July 1963), [2] better known as Fatboy Slim, is an English musician [3] 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 ...
The Housemartins were an English indie rock group formed in Hull who were active in the 1980s [2] and charted three top-ten albums and six top-twenty singles in the UK. [3] Many of their lyrics conveyed a mixture of socialist politics and Christianity, reflecting the beliefs of the band [4] (the back cover of their debut album, London 0 Hull 4, contained the message, "Take Jesus – Take Marx ...
Fatboy Slim is a Glastonbury veteran, with more Worthy Farm appearances under his belt than any other artist. The reason he keeps coming back? ... The Housemartins, who performed on the Pyramid ...
Beats International were a British dance music band and hip-hop collective, [1] formed in the late 1980s by Norman Cook (later in his career known as Fatboy Slim) based in Brighton, East Sussex, England, after his departure from the Housemartins.
Fatboy Slim shared a heartbreaking admission as 2024 drew to a close, as he addressed the future of his career as a DJ and producer. The 61-year-old artist, real name Norman Cook, said he believed ...
Zoe Ball has revealed her daughter was taken to A&E after her ex-husband, DJ Fatboy Slim, dropped a Christmas tree on her foot.. The Radio 2 presenter, 54, was married to the DJ – real name ...
2 The Housemartins. 3 Beats International. 4 Freak Power. 5 Pizzaman. 6 As Fatboy Slim. ... better known as Fatboy Slim, amongst many other stage names. As Norman Cook
"Right Here, Right Now" is a song by British big beat musician Fatboy Slim, released on 19 April 1999 as the fourth single from his second studio album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998). The song samples "Ashes, the Rain & I" by James Gang and an Angela Bassett quote from American science fiction thriller film Strange Days (1995). [3] "