Fatboy Slim nearly gave up music to develop into a firefighter

Although Fatboy Slim has earned his standing as one of many digital style’s time-honored abilities, the You’ve Come A Lengthy Means Child album maker, whose identify has been affiliated with a number of enduring dance staples similar to “Proper Right here, Proper Now,” as soon as thought-about a full-time profession as a firefighter. Throughout a speech at a Fireplace Fighters Charity occasion, the producer—actual identify Norman Prepare dinner—defined,

“I’ve been within the music enterprise just about all my life however there have been ups and downs, and there was one specific down the place everybody round was like, ‘you’re going to have to really get a correct job now since you’re skint.’ I considered what job I want to do and for some motive fireman simply… I don’t know. I simply had this imaginative and prescient that I wished to be a fireman.”

Prepare dinner went as far as to search out out whether or not he might qualify to develop into a firefighter, solely to study that he was too outdated. Shortly after, he went on to have one other hit music as Fatboy Slim and not wanted to think about a profession change. On July 2, the East Sussex Fireplace Division took to Twitter to recruit Prepare dinner