FATBOY SLIM - YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY

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🗓️ 29 October 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Norman Quentin Cook, also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English DJ, musician, multi-instrumentalist and record producer and mixer. As a solo electronic act, he has won ten MTV Video Music Awards and two Brit Awards.

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Chapters:

00.00 Trailer.

01:56 Brian’s introduction.

03:37 The Studio where experimental music was made under the influences mood board.

09:24 Fatboy Slim not quite what Americans were expecting.

13:40 Records were a rarity, they had a ‘B’ side and people had to attend a gig to hear them.

16:35 Grandmaster Flash turned Norman from a Punk Rocker to wanting to be a DJ.

21:31 Why Brighton, not London, has remained central.

26:32 Sampling with no rules, having fun, but not always getting away with it.

28:51 ‘You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby’, goes to number one in the charts.

30:36 Using feedback by being a DJ as to what pleased the crowd.

32:19 Record sources of his riffs, drum beats etc

36:27 Norman’s “have fun and break rules” attitude harmonised with Spike Jonze’s video.

40:37 Does great art have first to offend people and why he loves Keith Haring’s work.

42:26 The difference between a star performer and a DJ and why he prefers DJaying.

45:09 When 250,000 people came to his gig on the beach in Brighton..

48:43 The power of music to create collective euphoria, perhaps religious, even tribal experience 59:02 DJaying is powerful, intense and very rewarding.

1:04:21 DJs can go on for ever.

1:06:20 How Norman keeps in such good shape, able to be on stage until 6am.

1:06:59 Norman is involved in other creative projects, but doesn’t want another number one hit.

1:10:05 Why he’s never taken a break from working.

1:13:02 Phone call to the 20 year old Norman Cook

1:15:46 Best advice ever received.

1:16:04 Advice to the 20 year watching who wants to be a DJ.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	There's something about getting lots of people with them sharing collective euphoria.
0:09.6	It's tribal, it's almost religious at times it can make you high if you're high can make it
0:16.1	really fucking high and it's charged with all these different ions of escapism, headinism, sexuality, abandon, all the kind of things that young people dig.
0:34.0	Right.
0:35.0	I started DJ because I was a final junkie I was the only one who had all the records.
0:46.0	39 years I went DJ.
0:49.0	Have fun and break rules.
0:51.0	That was my mantra. What makes a quarter million people come to bright?
0:57.0	You.
0:58.0	If there's a city that you live in and you're proud of and they're proud of you,
1:02.0	there's no bigger pride in to do a big show and
1:05.2	celebrate that mutual relationship.
1:08.6	I think I enjoyed it more before I was sober, but I can't actually remember. I think I do a much better job now I'm cyber.
1:15.0	I get possessed by some spirit. There's certain gigs where I've just stopped, walked away from the decks and just stood there.
1:30.0	I just looked at the car, how it feels to be looking at this beautiful
1:36.0	spectrum of all these people having found. I just like making people smile and
1:41.8	dance. They're dancing behind movies,
1:47.0	behind the movie scenes.
1:50.0	Satirani.
1:52.0	She's the one that keeps the dream alive.
1:55.0	When I moved to England in the late 90s, Fat Boy Slim was everywhere.
2:06.0	The legendary English DJ and record producer was winning grammys and music video awards at will.
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