“I’m hoping that one day the passion will come back” Fatboy Slim says he “just don’t seem to feel like” making music anymoreRetirement may not be on the cards for Fatboy Slim just yet, but you’d be hard pressed to find the 61-year-old DJ and producer putting on his music-making hat ever again.
The musician, real name Norman Cook, recently told The Sun’s Bizarre column that he’ll much rather focus his energies on DJing than release new music because “you can’t make music unless you’re absolutely passionate about it”.

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“My last two singles just came out of a live show. They were both things that I made just to play on the side,” says Cook, who earlier this year released the single Bus Stop Please along with Daniel Steinberg.
“I had tunes that nobody else had in my set. And that kind of caught on with people when we worked out that we could clear the samples and release them. The thing is, you can’t make music unless you’re absolutely passionate about it and it drives you from the moment you wake up in the morning.”
“I just don’t seem to feel like that any more,” Cook admits. “I feel like that about DJing and about putting on things like this, but I’ve kind of lost my passion for making music.”
“For five years, I tried to beat myself up about it and go, ‘You should be doing this’. But then I thought, ‘Well, everybody likes my DJing and I enjoy that more, so I’ll do that.’”
“I’m hoping that one day the passion will come back,” he says.
Meanwhile, Fatboy Slim recently shared some DJing tips for the holidays, noting how it’s not so much about getting people dancing as much as it is about “unifying people”.
“The dance floor is like an organism, and when it’s all working together, it’s lovely, but sometimes you lose the dancefloor,” he said. “There’s sort of different pockets of people and they’re not really united. Or some people are dancing, some people aren’t, and it’s that feeling of bonding everybody together that you need to do, and recognition of a song that everybody likes is kind of that thing.”
“For me, if I really had to rescue a dance floor I’d play Right Here, Right Now or Praise You. They would be my get-out-of-jail records.”
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