Norman Cook Digs Deep in the Crates: Behind Fatboy Slim's Brighton Port Authority

[Raoul Duke]

Hear the globe-trotting DJ's new album, and the myth behind his project with David Byrne and Iggy PopAccording to legend — or the story Norman Cook is spreading — the Brighton Port Authority were a loose assembly of likeminded musicians recording in the 1970s whose tapes were recently discovered and dusted off for release. "It's sort of like the Traveling Wilburys but good," says Cook, best known as globe-trotting DJ and producer Fatboy Slim. In truth, Cook assembled the tracks on the BPA's debut I Think We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat from informal collaborations with artists like...

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