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Fatboy Slim
English musician (born 1963)
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- Music Festival (1)
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Fatboy Slim (1) · Sonny Fodera (1) · Radio 1 Big Weekend (1) · headliners (1) · music festival (1) · BBC Radio 1 (1) · electronic dance music (1)
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Norman Quentin Cook (born Quentin Leo Cook, 31 July 1963), known professionally as Fatboy Slim, is an English musician and DJ who helped popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s. His music makes extensive use of samples from eclectic genres, combined with pop structures, processed rhythms and "sloganistic" vocals.
In the 1980s, Cook became the bassist for the indie rock band the Housemartins, who achieved a UK number-one single with their cover of "Caravan of Love".
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🇬🇧 Fatboy Slim and Sonny Fodera to headline first day of Radio 1's Big WeekendThe annual music festival will take place in Sunderland's Herrington Country Park from 22 to 24 May....
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