Why fatboy slim

The eventual name itself was derived from a Deftones song of the same name. Funnily enough some people complained that it supported knife crime ridiculous right? Swire hit back with: " A cool name, but maybe not the greatest stage name.

The Dutch EDM heavyweight claims that his artist name was derived from his former hairdo and a style of dancing. Jan 14, , am EST. Dec 10, , pm EST. Nov 10, , am EST. Nov 3, , am EST. Sep 9, , pm EDT. Jun 30, , pm EDT. Jun 21, , am EDT. This will be mental. He's hit No. His music helped define the 90s Fatboy Slim released his second album, You've Come A Long Way Baby, in and it duly went to the top of the UK album chart and in New Zealand , and sold several million copies around the world.

His videos are brilliant It's hard to pick a favourite Fatboy Slim video — there are so many brilliant shorts to accompany his singles. He was bassist with the Housemartins , who recorded several sessions and were frequently played on Kat's Karavan, and sang a capella with them under the name Fish City Five.

Cook recorded solo under the name of Norman Cook, whilst with the Housemartins when he made a hip hop cut-up megamix promo, which never got officially released, due to the amount of samples used. When the Housemartins split amicably in , Cook continued his Norman Cook project and later on formed Beats International, which had a UK number one hit single in with Dub Be Good To Me : he also participated in a variety of other acts with varying degrees of success.

However, his career was truly revivified in when, under the name Fatboy Slim, he made the critically acclaimed LP Better Living Through Chemistry and followed this up with a series of commercially and critically successful albums and singles, achieving another UK number one in with Praise You. His single The Rockafeller Skank ran to nearly seven minutes on the version from the album You've Come A Long Way, Baby : edited down to under four and including a remarkable vocal sample slowly speeded up to resemble an air raid siren , it peaked at number six in the UK charts in the summer of