Fatboy Slim (born Quentin Leo Cook on July 16, 1963, also known as Norman Cook) is an English big beat musician. He stopped using 'Quentin' and began calling himself 'Norman' while a schoolboy, long before he adopted any other pseudonym.

Fatboy Slim (born Quentin Leo Cook on July 31, 1963, also known as Norman Cook ) is an English musician in the dance music genre. His style is known as big beat , a combination of hip hop , breakbeat , rock , house and rhythm and blues . He stopped using “Quentin” and began calling himself “Norman” long before he adopted any other pseudonym. Cook grew up in Reigate, Surrey , England and was educated at Reigate Grammar School. He started a punk fanzine as a teenager and at sixth-form coll