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“A good DJ is always looking at the crowd, seeing what they’re like, seeing whether it’s working; communicating with them. Smiling at them. And a bad DJ is always looking down at what they’re doing all the time and just doing their thing that they practiced in their bedroom.” – Fatboy Slim
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​Norman Quentin Cook (born Quentin Leo Cook on 31 July 1963), also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is a British DJ, musician, rapper, and record producer. 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 capella 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 and Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, as well as their associated singles including "The Rockafeller Skank", "Praise You", "Right Here Right Now" and "Weapon of Choice" 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 and Wildchild.
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Nov 29, 2022: Wealthy Gorilla: The 30 Richest DJ’s in the World
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26. Fatboy Slim Net Worth: $30 MillionNorman Quentin Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, is an English musician, DJ, and record producer who helped to popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s. ​As of December 2022, Fatboy Slim’s net worth is estimated to be $30 million.
Oct 13, 2022: BBC: ​Bristol Fatboy Slim free car park gig shut down by nightclub
​A gig involving DJ Fatboy Slim held in the car park of a nightclub in Bristol has been shut down.
DJ Eats Everything announced the joint free event at Lakota on Wednesday on his Instagram page.
It was originally due to be held in a south Bristol underpass, but was moved at the last minute.
Social media posts show people climbing the walls to get in. Venue bosses stopped the event due to the large number of people there.
April 5, 2022: DJ Mag: Carl Cox and Fatboy Slim announce collaborative single, ‘Speed Trials On Acid’
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UK dance music legends Carl Cox and Fatboy Slim have teamed up on a new single, 'Speed Trials On Acid,' out this Friday, 8th April.
Cox says 'Speed Trials On Acid' is a "reworking from [his] upcoming live electronic project," and it features spoken word performer Dan Diamond.
Oct 17, 2021: Belfast Telegraph: ​Derry Girls fans in a spin as Fatboy Slim to appear in final series
​Fatboy Slim will be Right Here, Right Now for the third and final series of Derry Girls.
Sunday Life can reveal that the superstar DJ — real name Norman Cook — is set for a cameo in the hit Channel 4 sitcom.
He had been booked to film scenes on Saturday, October 23 — before playing a gig in Belfast later that night but that show at the Belfast Telegraph building has now just been moved to December 17.
July 2, 2021: RTE: ​Fatboy Slim nearly quit music to become a fireman
​DJ Fatboy Slim has revealed he almost quit music to become a firefighter during a difficult period in his career.
The music star, whose real name is Norman Cook, said he looked into joining the service after finding he was "skint".
Dec 23, 2020: NME: Fatboy Slim jokes his “greatest triumph” is having a sex toy named after him
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Fatboy Slim has said having a sex toy named after him is the “greatest triumph” of his career.
The DJ (real name Norman Cook) was the inspiration for the Fatboy Thin toy.
Speaking about the moments that made him realise he’d made it as a DJ and performer, Cook remembered hearing his music on Eastenders. “I think the first time I knew I had arrived was when we heard a tune of ours on the jukebox at the Queen Vic,” Cook told the Celebs & The Average Joe podcast.
Jan 30, 2020: ABC: ​These 5 songs never leave Fatboy Slim's record crate
​"I became a DJ because I was a record collector. A vinyl junkie," he tells Zan Rowe for the Take 5 on Double J.
"In those days, before streaming and downloading, you physically had to possess the records to hear them. So, because I had records, I used to get invited to parties, because I'd bring my collection and then you could hear the latest hits.
"After a while, I realised that, at these teenage parties, my records ended up covered in vomit and cigarette ends. So, I'd say, 'Look, I'm coming, but I'm not bringing my records, because they're going to get trashed'."
Feb 22, 2019: The Guardian: ​Fatboy Slim review – cut'n'paste rave larges it to arena proportions
Had things gone differently, what a marketing executive Norman Cook would have made. Long before producers-turned-rave-ringmasters Guetta and Harris had laid their hands on a USB stick, he recognised that DJ sets in large venues need to be more than just a bloke playing records. In his hands, the process is akin to a rock gig, with a ladleful of circus on top. The opening date of this in-the-round arena tour takes the properties of a rave and magnifies them.
Sept 4, 2015: ​BBC: Fatboy Slim to play surprise gig at Banksy's Dismaland
​DJ Fatboy Slim is to play at Banksy's seaside Dismaland exhibition later, organisers have announced.
Tickets for the event, at the derelict Tropicana in Weston-super-Mare, have sold out for the slot originally due to be filled by DJ Dapper Dan.
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