It's been this long, and this is the FIRST time we've talked about Fatboy Slim in any real way. Well, there was this remix, but that's it.
Once upon a time, there was a band called The Housemartins. They were a major label signed band that lost their bassist right before their debut, so Norman Cook stepped in for their five year existence. The Housemartins were a guitar band, and that wasn't really what Cook wanted to do.
So, when The Housemartins broke up in 1988, a lot of the rest of the band formed another band called The Beautiful South, but Cook wanted to go electronic, so he formed Beats International, which was a loose collective of musicians. That loose collective morphed into being just Norman Cook, and so he took on a stage name....
Fatboy Slim.
He hit his commercial success peak in 1998, starting with this song that everyone thinks is called "Funk Soul Brother", but it's not. It's "The Rockafeller Skank". In fact, the only lyrics is a sample from some Lord Finesse spoken word stuff. The song features samples from eight different song.
This song ended up being a top 10 hit in the US and worldwide, becoming Fatboy Slim's first major hit.
It's also impossible to not dance to this song......
.... which is clearly on display at the 2012 Olympic closing ceremonies. Yes, that's Fatboy Slim on the turntables.
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