Satisfaction Skank has been a staple of Fatboy Slim’s live set for over a quarter of a century, but Cook says he can’t remember the first time he played it.
“That’s more of a testament to my state of mind and partying in those days, than to the historical importance of it,” he said.
However, he could recall debuting The Rockafeller Skank itself, at Brighton’s Big Beat Boutique in early 1998.
“I was so excited, because I’d just finished it,” he said. “I remember playing it and everyone just going nuts.
“I got really, really excited and started shouting, ‘That’s me, that’s me! That’s my new single!’
“And everyone just went, ‘Yeah, we guessed’.”
It went on to become a Top 10 hit, with promotional copies of the single describing it as “dance music’s Bohemian Rhapsody”.
“That was me, but I wasn’t being self-aggrandising,” he confessed to BBC News.
“As a music production fan, it’s famous that Bohemian Rhapsody was made up of three different segments that they had to edit together.
“And with Rockafeller, we had to do the same. It was the early days of the internet, so I had to go round to my engineer’s house to do the ‘slowy down bit’, because he had the software to make it work.
“Then I had to take that file back to my studio and edit all the bits together.
“So it wasn’t my Bohemian Rhapsody in terms of being a Stone Cold classic. It’s just that it was more complicated to make than everything I’d ever done.”