Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, is releasing a photo book titled It Ain’t Over Until the Fatboy Sings next week, documenting his four-decade career in music. The 62-year-old DJ and producer said: “It’s 40 years this year that I quit my day job and joined the circus. I thought about having a big party but this seemed better.”
The book features mementos from his hoarding habit, including lanyards, backstage passes, and flyers. Highlights include his first Big Beach Boutique gig on Brighton Beach in 2001, which drew 50,000 people. “I couldn’t believe that it was actually happening on the beach,” he recalled. A second event in 2002 attracted 250,000, but a woman died after falling 25ft from a promenade. Cook wrote that he still feels responsible.
Cook also recounts meeting Madonna at The Hacienda before she was famous, and a drunken night out with Cher that he does not remember. “Someone said are you going to put the Cher story in the book and I said I have never met her. They said ‘I think you’ll find you have’,” he said. Cook has been sober for 16 years.
