The music videos for the three singles were all directed by Michael Dominic. Cook adopted the new pseudonym Fatboy Slim in Its music video, starring Spike Jonze, won numerous awards.
In , 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 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. Norman Cook has been in the DJ game for so long that his artist name has changed before. The two Frenchmen were originally part of a rock group called Darlin'.
An absolute living legend in electronica, Aphex Twin has inspired so many artists in the scene today. He was born in Ireland as Richard D. We saved the most disappointing for last. His real name is Norman Cook. Or at least it would be, if it were. His real name is in fact Quentin Cook, but he ditched the Quentin for Norman when he joined The Housemartins as bassist.
He always detested "Quentin". He says he used to get beaten up at school because of it. And so you chose Norman instead? He has, he thinks, probably had more British chart successes under aliases than anyone else. And now, I think, he's about to reinvent himself again. Do you and Zoe want children? I'm ready to move on to something else, I don't want to be 40 and getting drunk every night. Until I met Zoe I thought I could never give it up, but now it seems right.
He made lamb with rosemary and garlic from The Naked Chef cookbook the other night. It was surprisingly edible. This may, even, take an unusual kind of intelligence. He was brought up in Reigate, Surrey, the youngest of three. His mother is a teacher in a hospital school. His father is an environmental consultant who was appointed MBE for introducing bottle banks into this country. Norman despised Reigate.
Everything revolves around garden centres. It probably has the highest incidence of garden centres per capita in the country. He desperately, he says, wanted to be working-class. His big hope was to go on the dole after leaving school. His parents are first-generation middle-class. His grandad had been a window cleaner. It means you have fruit in the house even when no one is poorly. He says it doesn't: "No, it's about believing you are better than other people. Or that's what I thought when I was a kid.
Now I can see there are good things about it, like expecting more than two square meals a day, and maybe a video-recorder. He fought against his background through music, as teenagers tend to do. He got very into punk, colouring his hair with poster paints at the weekend, washing it out on Sunday night. He wasn't a great punk. Anyway, he started amassing quite a record collection and, at 15, was already DJ-ing. He met Paul Heaton the founder of The Housemartins, who now fronts The Beautiful South while doing his A-levels, and joined the band when the bassist quit just before their first tour.
He was, he says, very up for being a pop star. I wanted a leather jump suit with my name sequined on the back. I remember my first time on Top of the Pops and getting the Tube home afterwards.
We deliberately tried not to fall into any of the traps. The Housemartins disbanded in Norman was partly relieved - "I didn't want to be doing that kind of music any more" - and partly devastated. The uniform is quite nice.
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