Fatboy Slim seems to have finally realised that he's neither an overweight child nor particularly slim. The 44-year-old DJ - known to his friends as Norman Cook - is rethinking his moniker, hoping that a revised nomenclature will spruce up his career.
"Yes, I am ditching the Fatboy Slim name," Cook told the Sun, "but I can't tell you the new one."
This isn't the first time that England's most banging Big Beater has thought to shuffle aliases. In fact, Cook holds the Guinness World Record for the most Top 40 hits under different names. While Rockafeller Skank and Praise You were released under the Fatboy Slim pseudonym, Cook has also scored hits as Beats International (Dub Be Good to Me), Freakpower (Turn On Tune In Cop Out) and Pizzaman (Happiness).
Still, he's being coy about the new name. When journalists pressed for details, he became oddly furtive: "I'm going to take the Fifth Amendment on that question and not say because I'll get myself into trouble."
Get himself into trouble? What kind of controversial alias does Norman Cook have in mind? Will he soon be releasing remixes under the name Ignore Your Grandmother? Will his next Big Beat hit be as Emigrate to America, or as the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994? We expect the only controversial thing will be how Norman Cook lost his knack for catchy tunes.
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