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70-902: Big beat achieved mainstream success during the 1990s, and achieved its critical and commercial peak between 1995 and 1999, with releases such the Chemical Brothers’ Dig Your Own Hole , The Prodigy's The Fat of the Land , and Fatboy Slim's You've Come a Long Way, Baby , before quickly declining from 2001 onwards. Big beat features heavy and distorted drum beats at tempos between 100 and 140 beats per minute , Roland TB-303 synthesizer lines resembling those of acid house , and heavy loops from 1960s and 1970s funk , soul , jazz , and rock songs. They are often punctuated with punk -style vocals or rappers and driven by intense, distorted synthesizer basslines with conventional pop, house and techno song structures. Big beat tracks have

140-586: A Grammy Award , nine MTV Video Music Awards and two Brit Awards , and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score in 2024. Cook was born in Bromley , Kent . He was raised in Reigate , Surrey , and educated at Reigate Grammar School , where he took violin lessons alongside the future prime minister Keir Starmer . Cook grew up with a love of music. When he was 14, his brother brought home

210-477: A 303 ". Fatboy Slim's next work was the single " The Rockafeller Skank ", using a keyboard, a Roland TB-303 , an Akai S-950 and an Atari ST , with a C-Lab Creator sequencer and released before the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby , both of which were released in 1998. " Praise You ", also from this album, was Cook's first UK solo number one . Its music video, starring Spike Jonze , won numerous awards. On 9 September 1999, he performed "Praise You" at

280-734: A Bigger Boat , is the first to be co-produced by Cook's longtime engineer Simon Thornton, who also sings on one track. The album was released 6 January 2009 exclusively at Amazon.com on CD, with downloadable format and other stores scheduled for a month later on 3 February 2009. In 2010, Cook released a mix album, The Legend Returns, as a covermount album in the June 2010 issue of Mixmag . He returned as Fatboy Slim when performing at Ultra Music Festival in Miami in March 2012. On 12 August 2012 he performed "Rockefeller Skank" and "Right Here, Right Now" at

350-601: A UK fruit juice ad. The videos for the three singles were directed by Michael Dominic . Cook also formed the group The Mighty Dub Katz with Gareth Hansome (aka GMoney), his former flatmate. Together they started the Boutique Nightclub in Brighton, formerly known as the Big Beat Boutique. Their biggest song together was " Magic Carpet Ride ". Cook adopted the pseudonym Fatboy Slim in 1996. He said of

420-573: A combination of everything prior and a signpost for what lay ahead. —Big Bang. In 1989, Iain Williams from the English electronic duo Big Bang coined the musical term "big beat" to describe the band's musical style. Williams explained the concept during an interview with the journalist Alex Gerry in an article published in the London magazine Metropolitan (issue 132, page 9, 6 June 1989) under

490-519: A couple of Number Ones and two new tracks, " Champion Sound " and " That Old Pair of Jeans ". In 2006, Cook travelled to Cuba and wrote and produced two original Cuban crossover tracks for the album The Revolution Presents: Revolution , which was released by Studio ! K7 and Rapster Records in 2009. The tracks are "Shelter" (which featured longtime collaborator Lateef ) and "Siente Mi Ritmo", featuring Cuba's female vocal group Sexto Sentido. The recordings took place at Cuba's EGREM Studios, home of

560-528: A departure from their big beat sound consisting of syncopated breakbeats and hip hop samples) inspired by the success of the Gatecrasher club and the trance movement, which would reach a commercial peak between 1999 and 2002. However, big beat had left an indelible mark on popular music as an indigenous progression from rave music, bridging a divide between clubbers and indie rock fans. Without this connection, some have reasoned that it would not have reached

630-753: A fall from the Upper Esplanade and one from a heart attack. After the show finished, major traffic congestion ensued throughout the Brighton area, with many caught in traffic jams until the morning. In June 2005, Fatboy Slim filled the Friday night headline slot on the "Other Stage" at the Glastonbury Festival . In 2006, Fatboy Slim filled the Saturday headline slot at the Global Gathering festival at Long Marston Airfield in

700-514: A headline gig at the Bestival on the Isle of Wight on 11 September. In March 2012, Cook hosted a one-hour radio programme, titled On The Road To Big Beach Bootique 5 , on XFM . It consisted of 10 shows. He performed his famous " The Rockafeller Skank " (dubbed the 'Funk Soul Brother') at the closing ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics on top of a giant inflatable octopus, which emerged from

770-506: A mix album in 1998, Brothers Gonna Work It Out . After the Chemical Brothers' successful debut album, Exit Planet Dust , released in June 1995, the duo continued to tour but quickly sought to record new material. Following the release of " Life Is Sweet ", the final single from that album, the duo had changed labels from Junior Boy's Own to Virgin , with Virgin getting credit on their album Exit Planet Dust as well under

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840-524: A private two-hour set "Baby Loves Disco" for preschool children and their parents during the festival Brighton Fringe holding. At Glastonbury 2016, he played the John Peel stage for the first time. In October 2019, Cook performed a mashup of his track "Right Here, Right Now" and Greta Thunberg 's United Nations speech during a concert in Gateshead, England. In May 2021, Cook performed at one of

910-606: A rehabilitation centre in Bournemouth to fight alcoholism . Due to an extended stay in the rehabilitation centre, his performance at Snowbombing , a week-long winter sports and music festival held in the Austrian ski resort of Mayrhofen , was cancelled, with the slot being filled by 2ManyDJs . Cook left the clinic at the end of March. As of 4 March 2019 he had not used drugs or alcohol for 10 years. Cook has supported Brighton & Hove Albion since moving to Brighton in

980-402: A sound that includes crescendos , builds, drops , extended drum rolls , and sounds such as spoken word samples, dialogues from film and TV, additional instruments such as Middle Eastern strings or sitars, explosions, air horns, sirens (usually police sirens) and gunshots. As with several other dance genres at the time, the use of effects such as filters , phasing , and flanging was common in

1050-536: A track. The Chemical Brothers had reportedly given him an instrumental track and he then wrote lyrics for the track. The song was released as the single " Setting Sun " on 30 September 1996. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number one. Stereogum said that "the combination of rave sirens and psych-rock far-outness [on Exit Planet Dust ] was probably what convinced people like Noel Gallagher and Mercury Rev to jump onboard". " Where Do I Begin "

1120-409: A trance-like quality. The band used session vocalists on all their recordings. The concept of the big beat sound was later picked up on and adapted by many club DJs and went on to become widely used by many successful musicians throughout the 1990s. The name came from our club, the Big Beat Boutique, which I'm tremendously proud of. I always thought the formula of big beat was the breakbeats of hip-hop,

1190-521: A version of " Caravan of Love ", originally a hit the year before for Isley-Jasper-Isley . By 1988 they had split up. Heaton and the drummer, Dave Hemingway, went on to form the Beautiful South , while Cook moved back to Brighton to pursue his interest in the style of music he preferred. He started working with the young studio engineer Simon Thornton, with whom he continues to make records. Cook achieved his first solo hit in 1989, "Blame It on

1260-627: Is aimed at "encouraging 16- to 25-year-olds to get more involved in their communities through grassroot initiatives and to raise awareness for community music projects". In May 2014, Fatboy Slim played Coachella for a second time, again on the Sahara stage. In December 2014, Fatboy Slim played three sold-out shows including The Warehouse Project in Manchester & O2 Brixton Academy, with supporting acts such as VAS LEON with Arthur Baker for Slam Dunk'd and DJ Fresh . On 15 May 2016, he played

1330-572: Is an English musician, DJ and record producer 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 " Caravan of Love ". After the Housemartins split up, Cook formed the electronic band Beats International in Brighton , who produced

1400-647: The 1999 MTV Video Music Awards in New York City and won three awards, including that for Breakthrough Video . In 2000, Fatboy Slim released his third studio album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars and featured two collaborations with Macy Gray and the track " Weapon of Choice ", which also was made into an award-winning music video starring Christopher Walken . The album also included " Sunset (Bird of Prey) ," whose socially significant video sampled

1470-543: The 2012 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony , and on 1 September 2012 Cook performed at Brighton Pride. On 20 June 2013, Cook released his first charting Fatboy Slim single in seven years; " Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat " with Riva Starr and Beardyman . Supported by a remix from Scottish DJ Calvin Harris , the song topped the UK Dance Chart that year. In 2015, Cook released a 15th-anniversary edition of Halfway Between

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1540-626: The Billboard Hot 100 on February 1, 1997. The mainstream success of the Chemical Brothers helped their 1995 album Exit Planet Dust and 1999 album Surrender sell 331,000 copies in the United States and 402,000 copies in the United States, respectively. The soundtrack to the 1999 movie The Matrix included big beat songs and the soundtrack was certified platinum by the RIAA on August 25, 1999. The soundtrack sold 1,460,000 copies in

1610-636: The Buena Vista Social Club , and featured a band of young Cuban musicians, including Harold Lopez Nussa . Another track recorded during these sessions, "Guaguanco", was released separately under the Mighty Dub Katz moniker in 2006. The Brighton Port Authority debuted in 2008 with a collaboration with David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal titled " Toe Jam ", along with a video featuring nude dancers with censor bars on them, making pictures and words with them. The soundtrack album for

1680-697: The Eastern Bloc in the 1960s. Unlike the 1990s genre, it did not cover electronic music ; rather, it was used to cover rock and roll and its related genres as the terms were not approved by the authorities in the Eastern Bloc countries (the USSR and its satellite states in the Warsaw Pact ). By the 1980s, rock and roll and related terms were already accepted by the authorities, so the term fell into obscurity until its 1990s name revival. Big Bang were

1750-489: The English Midlands . He played a two-hour set, appearing in front of a visual stage set comprising video screens and 3D lighting. A fireworks display rounded off the show. Having been banned by police from playing in Brighton since 2002, Fatboy Slim was given permission in 2006 to play again in his home town. On 1 January 2007, he played to an audience of more than 20,000 fans along Brighton's seafront. Tickets to

1820-664: The Mainstream Top 40 chart in 1999, respectively. In August 1998, the Crystal Method 's song "Comin' Back" went to number one on the Dance Club Songs chart. The Chemical Brothers' album Dig Your Own Hole was released in April 1997 and was certified gold by the RIAA on September 10, 1997. The album sold 756,000 copies in the United States. The Chemical Brothers' song " Setting Sun " peaked at number 80 on

1890-670: The O2 Wireless Festival and Rockness Festival. According to an NME interview, this may have been one of the last times he performed as Fatboy Slim, as he may now be focusing on his new band The Brighton Port Authority (BPA). Also in 2008, Fatboy Slim closed out the famed "Sahara" tent on Friday of the Coachella Valley Music Festival . His introduction included a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opening that has been called of

1960-589: The 1964 " Daisy Girl " campaign ad. At the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, Fatboy Slim won six awards for "Weapon of Choice", the most awards at the ceremony. In 2003, he produced " Crazy Beat " and "Gene by Gene" from the Blur album Think Tank and in 2004, Palookaville was Cook's first studio album for four years. Fatboy Slim's greatest hits album Why Try Harder was released on 19 June 2006. It consists of 18 tracks, including ten Top 40 singles,

2030-481: The 1990s. His 1998 album You've Come a Long Way, Baby was certified platinum in September 1999. Fatboy Slim's song " Praise You " peaked at number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 22, 1999, and his song " The Rockafeller Skank " peaked at number 76 on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 15, 2000. "Praise You" and "The Rockafeller Skank" peaked at number 22 on the Mainstream Top 40 chart in 1999 and number 21 on

2100-1082: The 49th greatest album of all time, and was also included in Q TV 's "Top 100 Albums of All Time" list in 2008. In 2000, the same magazine placed it at number 42 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. NME ranked it at number 414 in its 2014 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . Rolling Stone included it in their list of the "100 Best Albums of the Nineties", as did Spin . All tracks are written by Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, except where noted Sample credits Credits for Dig Your Own Hole adapted from album liner notes. The Chemical Brothers Additional musicians Additional technical personnel Design Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Fatboy Slim Norman Quentin Cook (born Quentin Leo Cook , 31 July 1963), better known as Fatboy Slim ,

2170-536: The Bassline", featuring future Beats International member MC Wildski. Credited to "Norman Cook feat. MC Wildski", the song followed the basic template of what would become Beats International's style. It reached number 29 on the UK singles chart . Cook formed Beats International, a loose confederation of studio musicians including the vocalists Lindy Layton and Lester Noel, the rappers D.J. Baptiste and MC Wildski and

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2240-611: The Brighton Port Authority, a collaborative effort with a number of other established artists including David Byrne . He has been responsible for successful remixes for Cornershop , the Beastie Boys , A Tribe Called Quest , Groove Armada and Wildchild . It was reported in 2008 that Cook held the Guinness World Record for most top-40 hits under different names. As a solo act, he has won

2310-427: The Chemical Brothers manage to turn sounds and "recycled voice snippets" into "alluring hooks in and of themselves, bringing the record as close to pop as techno has come so far", while The Village Voice ' s Robert Christgau attributed the album's effectiveness to the duo's "spirit—generous, jubilant, unfazed by industrial doom, in love with energy and sound." In 1998, Q readers voted Dig Your Own Hole

2380-672: The Crystal Method , Lunatic Calm , the Lo Fidelity Allstars , Death in Vegas , and the Propellerheads among others. Big beat achieved international success in the 1990s and early 2000s, as many artists identified with the genre released hit records. During the 1990s, the Prodigy had several songs in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart with two of those songs reaching number one on the chart. Their album The Fat of

2450-572: The Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary and Norway. The Prodigy's song " Smack My Bitch Up " went to number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Fat of the Land by the Prodigy sold 2,600,000 copies in the United States and was certified 2× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) . The Prodigy's single "Firestarter" was certified gold by the RIAA. Fatboy Slim also achieved international success in

2520-455: The Gutter and the Stars . This was supported with the release of miscellaneous remixes. In May 2015, Cook compiled The Fatboy Slim Collection, an album of songs used throughout his sets over the years. In 2017, Fatboy Slim returned with his single "Where U Iz", released on 3 March. Later that year, he released another collaboration with Beardyman titled "Boom F**king Boom". In 2018, a remix album from Australian artists of Cook's previous works

2590-722: The Land went to number one on the Billboard 200 in the US in July 1997 and to number one in many other countries, especially in Europe and Australasia. The Prodigy performed at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards winning the Viewer's Choice Award there. The Prodigy's song " Firestarter " went to number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was a number 1 hit in many other countries, including

2660-596: The Pyramid Stage. Cook produced the single " Mama Do the Hump " by fellow Brighton band Rizzle Kicks released in December 2011 which peaked at number 2 in the charts. Cook has been responsible for successful remixes for Cornershop , Beastie Boys , A Tribe Called Quest and Wildchild . In 2008, he did a remix of the track "Amazonas" for the charity Bottletop . On Saturday, 13 July 2002, Fatboy Slim played at

2730-666: The Stomping Pond Frogs. At 18, Cook went to Brighton Polytechnic to read a B.A. in English, politics and sociology, where he achieved a 2:1 in British Studies . He had begun DJing some years before, but it was at this time that he began to develop his skills in the thriving Brighton club scene, regularly appearing at the Brighton Belle and the Basement. There, known as DJ Quentox, he began laying

2800-510: The TV series Heroes also includes the Brighton Port Authority's track "He's Frank (Slight Return)" (a cover of a song by The Monochrome Set ), with Iggy Pop as vocalist. The video for this track features a near life-size puppet of Iggy Pop. An alternative club version was released under the title "He's Frank (Washing Up)", with the video featuring some footage of Iggy Pop acting and saying lyrics. The band's debut album, I Think We're Gonna Need

2870-863: The Terrace at Ibiza 's famed Space Nightclub's We Love Sundays closing party. On 29 October 2011, Fatboy Slim opened at the San Francisco Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, following up on the 30th, closing out the Red Bulletin/Le PLUR Stage at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans, Louisiana. On Saturday, 24 March 2012, Fatboy Slim performed a live DJ set on the main stage at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Florida. In addition to his other 2011 performances, Fatboy Slim also played

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2940-457: The United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan . The big beat scene had started to gradually decline in popularity by 2001, due to the novelty of the genre's formula fading. The genre's most successful acts would further change their sound; more prominently, the Chemical Brothers releasing more material with direct house and techno characteristics (including " 4x4 " beats which resemble those of house and synthesizer sweeps and noises, marking

3010-591: The base for Brighton's hip-hop scene. In 1985, Heaton formed a guitar band, the Housemartins . Their original bassist, Ted Key , left on the eve of their first national tour, so Cook agreed to move to Hull to join them. The band soon had a hit single, " Happy Hour ", and their two albums, London 0 Hull 4 and The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death , reached the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart . They also reached number one just before Christmas 1986 with

3080-489: The case and was ordered to pay back twice the royalties made on the record, bankrupting him. The 1991 follow-up album, Excursion on the Version , an exploration of dub and reggae music, did not chart. Cook formed Freak Power with the horn player Ashley Slater and the singer Jesse Graham. They released their debut album Drive-Thru Booty in 1994, which contained the single " Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out ". Levi's used

3150-565: The city's flourishing hip hop scene today. These primitive 1980s block parties are recalled in the music documentary South Coast , which documents Brighton's cult hip hop scene from its grass roots to the present day. Cook was awarded a star on the city of Brighton's Walk of Fame, next to that of Winston Churchill . Q magazine named Fatboy Slim part of their "50 Bands to See Before You Die" list. Cook married TV personality Zoe Ball in 1999 at Babington House in Somerset. In January 2003,

3220-645: The couple separated, but three months later they reconciled. Their daughter Nelly May Lois premiered a DJ set as Fat Girl Slim with Camp Bestival during the COVID-19 pandemic to raise money for the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust and The Trussell Trust . They lived in Western Esplanade, Portslade , Hove . On 24 September 2016, Cook and Ball announced their separation after 18 years. On 4 March 2009, Cook checked into

3290-860: The east dance at Glastonbury Festival . On 18 June 2010, he performed in Cape Town , South Africa as part of the Cool Britannia FIFA World Cup music festival at the Cape Town International Convention Centre . He also performed in Naples on 15 July at the Neapolis Festival. On 30 May 2011, he performed as the headliner for Detroit's Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit, Michigan. On 25 September 2011, Fatboy Slim headlined

3360-404: The energy of acid house, and the pop sensibilities of the Beatles, with a little bit of punk sensibility, all rolled into one. People like the Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers – we saw it as very similar to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who grew up listening to soul records and blues records and then sold an English version of it back to America. — Fatboy Slim In the early 1990s, in

3430-423: The event, titled "Fatboy Slim's Big Beach Boutique 3", were made available only to individuals with a BN postcode. The concert was deemed a "stunning success" by Sussex police, Fatboy Slim and the crowd. The Cuban Brothers and David Guetta opened the concert. The next similar event, 'Big Beach Boutique 4', was held on 27 September 2008. In 2008, Fatboy Slim played at the Glastonbury Festival again and headlined

3500-406: The first UK events in Liverpool, England as part of the government's trials to restart mass audience events. In July 2022, Cook returned to Brighton beach for the 20th anniversary of Big Beach Boutique. He was joined by Carl Cox, Eats Everything and others. Known as DJ Quentox (The OX that Rocks), Cook and DJ Baptiste started putting on youth club hip hop jams in Brighton, sowing the seeds of

3570-467: The first album from the punk band the Damned ; he started attending punk gigs at the Greyhound pub in Park Lane, Croydon , and playing in punk bands. He played drums in Disque Attack, a British new wave -influenced rock band. When the frontman, Charlie Alcock, was told by his parents that he had to give up the band to concentrate on his O levels , Cook took over as lead vocalist. At the Railway Tavern in Reigate, Cook met Paul Heaton , with whom he formed

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3640-490: The fusion of genres appealed to DJs, producers, and fans keen on continued experimentalism within dance music. Record labels such as Junior Boy's Own and Heavenly Records demonstrated this broader-minded approach, releasing slower breakbeat-based music alongside house and acid house singles, introducing DJ-turned-artists such as the Chemical Brothers (known then as the Dust Brothers) and Monkey Mafia in 1994. Norman Cook and Damian Harris first became associated with

3710-428: The genre. Celebrated pioneers of the genre such as Fatboy Slim tend to feature heavily compressed loud breakbeats in their songs, which are used to define the music as much as any melodic hooks and sampled sounds. Based on the primary use of loud, heavy breakbeats and basslines, big beat shares attributes with jungle and drum and bass , but has a significantly slower tempo. The term "big beat" traces its roots to

3780-631: The heading, Big Bang in Clubland – Could Big Beat be the 1989 answer to Acid House? The band was promoting their first record, an Arabic-inspired dance version of ABBA 's " Voulez-Vous " and their instrumental track "Cold Nights in Cairo" that had just been released on Swanyard Records. The single was produced by Big Bang and Steev Toth. Big Bang are Laurence Malice ( Trade nightclub founder) and Iain Williams (writer). The band's sound consisted of various experimental musical elements, including heavy drum beats and synthesizer-generated loops as well as an added suggestion of European influences that at times had

3850-490: The heights that it did, or resonated with as many listeners as it did. Dig Your Own Hole Dig Your Own Hole is the second studio album by the English electronic music duo the Chemical Brothers . It was released on 7 April 1997 in the United Kingdom by Freestyle Dust and Virgin Records and in the United States by Astralwerks . It was recorded between 1996 and 1997, and features Noel Gallagher of Oasis and Beth Orton as guest vocalists. Dig Your Own Hole

3920-414: The keyboardist Andy Boucher. Their first album, Let Them Eat Bingo , included the number-one single " Dub Be Good to Me ", which caused a legal dispute over allegations of copyright infringement through the liberal use of unauthorised samples : the bassline was taken from the Clash 's " The Guns of Brixton " and the chorus was an interpolation of the S.O.S. Band 's " Just Be Good to Me ". Cook lost

3990-476: The liner notes. The duo released an EP, Loops of Fury in January 1996, consisting of new material and a remix of one of the band's earliest and signature tracks, "Chemical Beats". The songs "It Doesn't Matter" and "Don't Stop the Rock" were released in June 1996 on vinyl as " Electronic Battle Weapon 1 " and " Electronic Battle Weapon 2 " respectively as promos for DJs to test in clubs. The duo met up with Noel Gallagher . They were interested in collaborating for

4060-410: The midst of several popular musical subcultures, including the English rave scene, British hip hop , chillout or ambient , gestating subgenres such as trip hop and breakbeat , along with the emerging Britpop movement – a process of hybridisation and a taste for eclecticism was developing within English dance music generally. Sampling had become an integral part of dance music production and

4130-474: The most memorable Sahara performances ever. In 2009, he toured Australia in the Good Vibrations Festival . Also in 2009, he played in Marlay Park , Dublin, alongside David Guetta , Dizzee Rascal and Calvin Harris , as well as one huge performance at the Sziget Festival in Budapest . He also performed at V Festival 2009. At Glastonbury 2009, he played an unadvertised concert in the "pinball-machine" stage at trash city. In 2010, Fatboy Slim headlined

4200-434: The name: "It doesn't mean anything. I've told so many different lies over the years about it I can't actually remember the truth. It's just an oxymoron—a word that can't exist. It kind of suits me—it's kind of goofy and ironic." The Fatboy Slim album and Cook's second solo album, Better Living Through Chemistry (released on Skint Records in the UK and Astralwerks in the US), contained the Top 40 UK hit " Everybody Needs

4270-576: The number-one single " Dub Be Good to Me ". He then played in Freak Power , Pizzaman and the Mighty Dub Katz, with moderate success. In 1996, Cook adopted the name Fatboy Slim and released Better Living Through Chemistry to critical acclaim. Follow-up albums You've Come a Long Way, Baby , Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars , and Palookaville , as well as singles such as " The Rockafeller Skank ", " Praise You ", " Right Here, Right Now ", " Weapon of Choice " and " Wonderful Night ", achieved commercial and critical success. In 2008, Cook formed

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4340-404: The second of his free open-air concerts on Brighton Beach, the Big Beach Boutique II . Although organisers expected a crowd of around 60,000 people, the event instead attracted an estimated 250,000 who crammed the promenade and beach between Brighton's piers. Local police forced the event to end early amid safety concerns due to overcrowding. Shortly after the event there were two deaths, one due to

4410-443: The song in a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign. In 1996, Cook rejoined Freak Power for their second album, More of Everything for Everybody . Cook enlisted help from producer friends Tim Jeffery and JC Reid to create a house music album as Pizzaman . The 1995 Pizzamania album spawned three UK Top 40 hits: " Trippin' on Sunshine ", " Sex on the Streets " and " Happiness ". Del Monte Foods corporation used "Happiness" in

4480-446: The term "big beat" through Harris's label Skint Records and club night the Big Beat Boutique, held on Friday nights at Brighton 's Concorde club between 1995 and 2001. The Heavenly label's London club The Sunday Social had adopted a similar philosophy with resident DJs the Chemical Brothers and their eclectic approach. The term caught on, and was subsequently applied to a wide variety of acts, including Bentley Rhythm Ace , Lionrock ,

4550-440: The top of a party bus. In 2013, Fatboy Slim played at Ultra Music Festival, Wavefront Music Festival, Exit Festival , Bestival and Glastonbury Festival (as a special guest on the Wow! and Arcadia stages). On 6 March 2013, Fatboy Slim played at the House of Commons in Westminster , London. This was the first time a DJ ever performed there, and the performance was in aid of the Last Night A DJ Saved My Life Foundation, which

4620-428: Was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album , at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards . In Rolling Stone , David Fricke wrote that Dig Your Own Hole "burns the whole rock vs. techno argument into a fine, white ash", calling it "a wild beauty of a record" that "rocks, rolls and surges without factionalist prejudice or fear of genre." Entertainment Weekly reviewer David Browne found that

4690-429: Was released as a promotional single in early 1997. " Block Rockin' Beats " was released on 24 March 1997 and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the duo's second number one single. Dig Your Own Hole was released on 7 April 1997 by record labels Virgin and Freestyle Dust. " Elektrobank " was released on 8 September 1997 and reached number 17 in the UK Singles Chart. " The Private Psychedelic Reel "

4760-451: Was released on 1 December 1997. A numbered release, it was ineligible for the UK Singles Charts. Further physically released promotion for the album include a DJ mix and interview set . The album was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on 21 January 2000. In 2004, the album was packaged with 1995's Exit Planet Dust in a limited edition box set as part of EMI 's "2CD Originals" collection. Dig Your Own Hole

4830-525: Was released, titled Fatboy Slim vs. Australia . In June 2023, Cook played at Glastonbury Festival . He performed the song "Insomnia" by Faithless as a tribute to Maxi Jazz . In June 2024, Fatboy Slim released a new single featuring vocalist Dan Diamond called "Role Model." It comes with a music video, his first in nearly 20 years, and features many celebrities using deepfake technology such as David Bowie , Bill Murray and Muhammad Ali . On 28th June 2024, Cook appeared at Glastonbury with Paul Heaton on

4900-465: Was the first Chemical Brothers album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart . Five singles were released, two of which reached number one in the UK: " Setting Sun ", " Where Do I Begin ", " Block Rockin' Beats ", " Elektrobank ", and " The Private Psychedelic Reel ". The album has been included in several British magazines' lists of the best albums ever. The success of the album led the Chemical Brothers to be much sought-after remixers, and they released

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