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The bands membership changed quite a lot over the years. on bass Ted Key was replaced by Norman Cook - the future Fatboy Slim.
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Norman Cook
Fatboy Slim (born on July 16, 1963, Quentin Leo Cook) also known as Norman Cook is a British musician in the dance music genre.
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Cook grew up in Reigate, Surrey, and was educated at Reigate Grammar School.
He started a punk fanzine as a teenager and at sixth-form college met Paul Heaton.
At 18, Cook went to university 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.
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The Housemartins' bassist had just quit on the eve of their first national tour and, although Cook had lost interest in the rock scene and could barely play a musical instrument, he agreed to move to Hull to join them.
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Cook formed Beats International, a loose confederation of studio musicians including vocalists Lindy Layton and Lester Noel, rapper MC Wildski, and keyboardist Andy Boucher.
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Cook then formed Freakpower, with horn player and singer Ashley Slater.
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In 1995, Cook enlisted help from producer friends Tim Jeffery and JC Reid to create a solo album, Pizzaman.
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In 1996, Cook then re-joined Ashley Slater for the second Freakpower album, titled Everything for Everybody.
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Later that same year, Cook adopted the alter-ego pseudonym Fatboy Slim and began frequenting the Brighton club The Big Beat Boutique.
While DJing at the club, Cook befriended the Chemical Brothers, who suggested that he work on his own material instead of merely DJing.
The Fatboy Slim album Better Living Through Chemistry (released through Skint Records) marked Cook's emergence into the big time.
Filled with retro samples and funk-laden grooves, the album was among the first in the then-new big beat sound.
It also spawned one Top 40 UK hit, "Everybody Needs a 303".
After Cook's remix of Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha" topped the charts, such musical heavy hitters as Madonna and U2 asked him to produce for them.
Fatboy Slim's next work was the single "The Rockafeller Skank" which was released prior to the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby, both of which came out in 1998 to rave reviews.
This album also produced the single "Praise You", which also became a major dance hit, giving Cook his first UK solo number one.
Its video, directed by Spike Jonze, won numerous awards.
Further Fatboy Slim works have appeared in movies, television series, and more ads.
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Cook was recently awarded a star on the city of Brighton's Walk of Fame, next to that of Winston Churchill.
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Cook is also a minority owner of the football club he has supported since moving to Brighton in the late 80's, Brighton & Hove Albion.
In 2002, Q magazine named Fatboy Slim in their list of the 50 Bands to See Before You Die.
In January 2003, Cook and his wife underwent a very public break-up, but three months later, they were reconciled.
In 2004, Cook released two remixes in June and July, based on Max Sedgley's "Happy" and "Follow Me Follow Me (Quem Que Caguetou)" by Black Alien & Speed.
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Palookaville represented a significant shift in style for Cook, with a reduction in the traditional Fatboy Slim reliance on vocal loops, and the introduction of real instruments (Cook himself plays bass on some of the album's tracks, with Simon Thornton playing various other instruments, along with various guests, e.g.
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- [http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/norman cook.htm A Conversation with Norman Cook] Slim, Fatboy Category:British musicians Category:Electronic musicians Category:English football chairmen and investors ja:ファットボーイ・スリãƒ
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