Norman Cook
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"Norman Quentin Cook", also known by his stage name "Fatboy Slim", is an English DJ, musician, rapper, and record producer. As a solo electronic act, he has won ten MTV Video Music Awards and two Brit Awards. His records as Fatboy Slim also helped to popularise the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s.

Cook first rose to fame in the 1980s as the bassist of the indie rock band The Housemartins who scored a UK number-one single with their a capella cover of Isley-Jasper-Isley's "Caravan of Love". After the band split, Cook formed Beats International whose début album spawned their signature hit, "Dub Be Good to Me" which was another UK number-one as well as going on to become the seventh best-selling single of 1990 in the UK. Cook then went on to join numerous other acts including Freak Power, Pizzaman (band)/Pizzaman and The Mighty Dub Katz to moderate success.

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I didn't really get into second gear until I was 30. My first wife was a nurse and she was very anti. I never really started caning it until 1990, when I was 29. I had to make up for being a late starter. It wasn't self-destruction - I was having fun. There was never any reason to stop doing it, because it was fun. It makes it much harder to give up. It wasn't even starting to hurt.

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I'm very inspired.

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I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

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I am a club DJ. I am not a pop star.

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They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

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Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.

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