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About Fatboy Slim

Early Years

Norman was born in Bromley, Kent on the 31st July 1963 as Quentin Leo Cook. At school, he played the drums for local New Wave band, 'Disque Attack' and then became lead vocalist. He met Paul Heaton around about this time, and they formed a band, 'The Stomping Pondfrogs'. Cook was already well-known on the Brighton club scene by this time as he was performing there as a DJ while studying English, Politics and Sociology at Brighton Polytechnic. In 1985, Paul Heaton formed the Housemartins in Hull and asked Norman to join them. They had a hit with the singles 'Happy Hour' and two albums, 'London 0 Hull 4' and 'The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death', reached top ten positions in the UK charts before their success with 'Caravan of Love'.

Solo Success

By 1988 The Housemartins had split up, and Norman headed back to Brighton to pursue his musical interests. In 1989, he had his first solo hit with 'Blame It On The Bassline'. He then formed 'Beats International'. The number one single, 'Dub Be Good To Me', came from their first album 'Let Them Eat Bingo'. Unfortunately, Cook was bankrupted after a legal case for breach of copyright on the single on which the bassline had relied heavily on 'The Guns of Brixton' by 'The Clash' and the lyrics on 'Just Be Good To Me', by 'The SOS Band'. In 1996 'Fatboy Slim' was born and he had hits with 'Everybody Needs a 303', taken from the first album, 'Better Living Through Chemistry'. The next album, 'You've Come a Long Way Baby ' produced a hit single of the same name and also the single 'Praise You', which was his first solo number one.