Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, is an English DJ, musician and record producer, credited with bringing electronic dance into the mainstream during the 1990s.

Born Quentin Leo Cook in Reigate, Surrey on 31^st July 1963, the musician landed his first job – as a drummer for the British new wave rock band Disque Attack – in his mid-teens. He studied at Brighton Polytechnic and developed his DJ-ing skills in the thriving Brighton club scene, before joining The Housemartins in 1985. The band gave Cook his first taste of success, as they produced seven UK Top 40 hits, including the number three single Happy Hour and the number one smash hit Caravan of Love.

The hits continued with Cook’s next two group projects, Beats International and Freak Power, who scored the UK Top 5 songs Dub Be Good to Me and Turn On Tune In Cop Out respectively. After enjoying such success with three different groups, Cook decided to go solo under the pseudonym Fatboy Slim.

His debut solo album Better Living Through Chemistry was released in 1996. It produced his first Top 40 hit Everybody Needs a 303 and the single Going Out of My Head. This was followed by his second album, 1998’s You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby – Cook’s most successful record to date. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and hit the Top 40 in the US (where it sold over a million copies), and also spawned four UK Top 10 singles – The Rockafeller Skank, Gangster Trippin, Praise You and Right Here, Right Now . In 2000, it was voted as one of Q magazine’s 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

Since the turn of the century, Cook has released four more studio albums – Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, Palookaville, I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat and Here Lies Love – which have sold millions of copies around the world. They have also produced a number of hit singles, including Sunset (Bird of Prey), Weapon of Choice, Slash Dot Dash and Wonderful Night.

Cook is currently performing on the European music festival circuit.