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club scene.Fatboy Slim (born on July 16, 1963, Quentin Cook) also assurancemoto known as Norman Cook assurancemoto is a British musician in the dance music genre. His style is known as 'big beat', a combination of hip hop, techno, rock, and rhythm and blues. He stopped using 'Quentin' and began calling himself 'Norman' assurancemoto long before he adopted any other pseudonym.Cook grew up in Reigate, Surrey. He started a punk fanzine as a teenager and at sixth-form college met Paul Heaton. At 18, Cook went to university to study a BA in English, Politics and Sociology. Although he had begun DJ-ing some years before, it was at this time that he began to develop his skills on the thriving Brighton club scene. In 1985 he was diverted by a call from an his old friend, Paul Heaton. Heaton had moved to Hull and had formed a guitar band called The Housemartins. The Housemartins' bassist had just quit on the eve of their first national tour and, although Cook had lost interest in the rock scene and could barely play a musical instrument, he agreed to move to Hull to join them.
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