Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast
from BBC Radio 4. Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks,
book and luxury that they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
For rights reasons, the music's shorter than on the original broadcast,
but you can find a version with longer music tracks on BBC Sounds.
Listeners will also get access to episodes 28 days earlier than everyone else.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My cast away this week is the DJ and musician Norman Cook.
Perhaps better known as Fatboy Slim, he's previously operated under many aliases.
Pizza Man, Cheeky Boy, Freak Power, Sunny Side Up, the Brighton Port Authority, Beats International, the Mighty Dubcats,
the House Martins, and before any of that, when he was growing up in what he calls suburban hell,
but which you might know better as Rygate, Quentin Leo Cook.
As a DJ, he's played everywhere from Bondi Beach and the Great Wall of China to the House of Commons.
He's played every Glastonbury festival since 1997, though has famously never invoiced for a performance.
His awards include the Guinness World Record for most number one singles by one musician in different acts,
the Outstanding Contribution to UK Music from the Music Producers Guild,
and a Gold Award from the Sussex Partnership Trust.
For the DJ workshops, he provides to those struggling with their mental health in his adoptive hometown of Brighton.
He has, to coin a phrase, come a long way, baby.
He says, my love of music involves sharing it with other people.