History
Cook grew higher around Reigate, Surrey, and was educated at Reigate Grammar School. He began the punk fanzine as a adolescent & at sixth-form college met Paul Heaton. At Eighteen, Cook attend university to survey the BA inside English, Politics & Sociology. Although he experienced begun DJing some years prior to, it was at this period that he began to acquire his skills on the thriving Brighton club scene. Within 1985 he was diverted by a call for from either his old friend, Paul Heaton. Heaton experienced moved to Hull and had formed the guitar band called The Housemartins.

A Housemartins' bassist got good quit on the eve of their foremost national tour &, although Cook experienced misplaced interest in the rock scene & may barely play the instrument, he agreed to move to Hull to join the children. the band before long experienced a hit only by having "Happy Hour". It besides reached first good prior to Christmas 1986 with a version of "Caravan of Love". Nevertheless, by 1988 they had split. Heaton & a band's drummer Dave Hemingway went in to form The Beautiful South, while Cook withdraw to Brighton to pursue his interest in the style of music he favorite. It was at this period that he foremost began working using immature studio engineer Simon Thornton, with whom he continues to produce records. Completely Cook's records freed from either that point onward own included each of the children to variable degrees (Thornton is credited around 2004 as "Executive Producer" for example).

Cook formed Beats International, a free confederation of studio musicians including vocalists Lindy Layton and Lester Noel, rapper MC Wildski, and keyboardist Andy Boucher. Their foremost album, Let The children Eat Bingo (involved a First individual, "Dub Be Good to Me"). "Dub Be Good To Me" stimulated the legal dispute revolving about allegations of infringement of copyright through the liberal use of unauthorized samples: the bassline was a note-for-note lift from either The Clash's "The Guns Of Brixton" & a song as well borrowed heavy from either the S.O.S. Band's "Just Be Good To Me". A 1991 follow-up album Excursion on the Version, an exploration of dub and reggae rhythms, failed to repeat the profits of its predecessor.

Cook so formed Freakpower, with horn streaming video player & singer Ashley Slater. A duo freed their debut album, Cause Thru Booty, around 1994, which contained the only "Turn On Tune In Cop Out". A cut was picked higher per Levi's company for use in a multimillion-dollar ad campaign.

Around 1995, Cook enlisted help from either producer friends Tim Jeffery and JC Reid to create the solo album, Pizzaman. A album featured a single track ("Happiness") that was picked higher per Del Monte Foods corporation for use inside the UK fruit juice ad. Around 1996, Cook then re-joined Ashley Slater for the 2nd Freakpower album, highborn All about for Everybody.

Late that equivalent season, Cook adopted a vary-ego anonym Fatboy Slim & began frequenting a Brighton club A Heavy Beat Boutique. When DJing at a club, Cook befriended a Chemical Brothers, who suggested that he operate in his have poop instead of simply DJing.

A Fatboy Slim album Better Living Through Chemistry (released through Skint Records) marked Cook's emergence into the large period. Filled by using retro samples & funk-laden grooves, a album was among a 1st in the so-just released large beat healthy. It besides spawned 1 Top Forty UK hit, "Everybody Needs a 303". When Cook's remix of Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha" topped the stock and index charts, such musical large hitters when Madonna and U2 asked him to produce for the children.

Fatboy Slim's next act was a only "The Rockafeller Skank" which was freed before a album ''You've Come a Long Way, Baby, both of which came out in 1998 to rave reviews. This album besides produced a lone "Praise You", which too became the major dance hit, generating Cook his 1st UK solo number one. Its video, directed by Spike Jonze, won numerous awards. supplementary Fatboy Slim works keep close at h& appeared inside motion picture, television series, and more ads.

Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars'' was released around 2000 and featured two collaborations by having Macy Gray. It too involved "Sunset (Bird of Prey)", the slower tempo piece depending in the arethe of a sample of Jim Morrison from The Doors, and "Weapon of Choice", which as well boasted an award-winning videos starring Christopher Walken.

Cook was recently awarded the star on the city of Brighton's Hike of Fame, next to it of Winston Churchill. He married TV personality Zoë Ball in 1999; the few develop a single boy known as Woody. Cook is too the minority creator of the football club he has supported since moving to Brighton in the late 80's, Brighton & Hove Albion.

Around 2002, Q magazine named Fatboy Slim in their list of the 50 Bands to See Before You Die.

Around January 2003, Cook and his married woman underwent the super public break-higher, however tercet months late, it were reconciled.

Around 2004, Cook freed ii remixes inside June & July, according to Max Sedgley's "Happy" and "Follow Me Follow Me (Quem Que Caguetou)" by Tejo Black Alien & Speed. the latter, the Brazilian breakbeat song, became popular fallowing getting appeared on the Nissan X-Trail advertising (portraying a extra extreme nature and severity of marathon). Fatboy Slim's remix was so utilized in the ad itself. His number one album around little joe years, Palookaville, was also announced around July. Cook's next studio album was confirmed for release in 4th October in the UK (Stony-broke records) & 5th October for the United states (Astralwerks). In the UK, Radio One received an exclusive play of the 1st lone "Slash Dot Dash", when in the America "The Joker" (the collaboration sustaining Bootsy Collins) had been alone aired. A song was appearing in the radio & was mass produced quickly available on iTunes months ahead of the album release.

Palookaville represented a important shift in vogue for Cook, sustaining the reductiin in the traditional Fatboy Slim reliance in vocal loops, & the introduction of very instruments (Cook himself plays bass on a bit of of the album's tracks, by owning Simon Thornton swimming various more instruments, along by owning various guests, e.g. Justin Robertson) and further conventional song structures. Extra "traditional" Fatboy Slim tracks like "Jin Go Lo Ba" coexist by having good-length vocal tracks like the rendition of the Steve Miller Band's "The Joker". A album besides features several supplementary vocal collaborations, including by using rapper Lateef and Brighton-based band Johnny Quality.

Discography

Albums
Pizzaman (1995) pre-Fatboy Slim moniker Better Living Through Chemistry (1996) On the Floor at the Boutique (Live) (1998) ''You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998) Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (2000) Live on Brighton Beach (Live) (2002) Big Beach Boutique II (Live) (2002) My Game (Live) (2002) Palookaville'' (2004)

Hit singles
1997 "Everybody Needs a 303" #34 UK 1998 "The Rockafeller Skank" #6 UK 1998 "Gangster Trippin'" #3 UK 1999 "Praise You" #1 UK, #36 US 1999 "Right Here Right Now" #2 UK 1999 "Badder Badder Schwing" (Freddy Clean exploit. Fatboy Slim) #34 UK 2000 "Sunset (Bird of Prey)" #9 UK 2001 "Demons" (deed. Macy Gray) #16 UK 2001 "Star 69" / "Weapon of Choice" #10 UK 2001 "A Song for Shelter" / "Ya Mama" #30 UK 2004 "Slash Dot Dash" #12 UK 2004 "Wonderful Night" #59 UK 2005 "The Joker" #32 UK 2005 "Don't Let The Man Get You Down" - Didn't Chart