- Who
- Norman Cook
- What
- 6 total number
- Where
- United Kingdom ()
- When
The pseudonym-loving DJ/producer Norman Quentin Cook (UK, b. Quentin Leo Cook) has scored UK No.1 singles with six different acts. The most significant of these occurred on the all-genre Official Singles Chart (1986’s “Caravan of Love” with The Housemartins; 1990’s “Dub Be Good to Me” with Beats International (feat. Lindy Layton); and 1999’s “Praise You” as Fatboy Slim). He has also reached No.1 on the Official Hip-Hop & R&B Singles Chart with Freak Power (1995’s “Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out”), and on the Official Dance Singles Chart with Pizzaman (1995’s “Sex on the Streets”) and Mighty Dub Katz (1996’s “Just Another Groove”).
He has failed to make it to No.1 charting under two other names: the most successful of his two UK hits as Norman Cook peaked at No.29 on the Official Singles Chart in 1989 (“Won’t Talk About It”/”Blame It on the Bassline”), during a phase of his career that saw music produced under 13 different aliases, including Cheeky Boy, Fried Funk Food, Quentox, Sunny Side Up and Yum Yum Head Food.
The Brighton Port Authority (2008-12), Cook’s most recent project before he returned to the music scene as Fatboy Slim, debuted at No.25 on the Official Independent Singles Chart in 2008 with “Seattle”.
British singer Tony Burrows, while not being able to match Fatboy Slim’s level of chart-topping success, did provide vocals for a number of significant UK hits, including, in the first half of 1970 alone, “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” with Edison Lighthouse (No.1), “United We Stand” with Brotherhood of Mann (No.10), “My Baby Loves Lovin’” with White Plains (No.9) and “Gimme Dat Ding” with The Pipkins (No.6). He was also a member of The Flower Pot Men when they peaked at No.4 with “Let’s Go to San Francisco” in 1967. Burrows claims to have sung on “around 100” Top 20 hits in the 1970s.
