Fatboy Slim & The Rolling Stones 'Satisfaction Skank' by Tom Furse
David Knight - 15th Dec 2025
Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim's mash-up of his own Rockefeller Skank and The Rolling Stones' classic Satisfaction has been a staple of his live shows since around 1999. And 'one of the world's most bootlegged recordings', has finally been officially released, with an all-AI music video created by Tom Furse that places Norman and a young Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in a fantasy mid-60s LA nightclub.
Furse's video for Satisfaction Skank is a dizzying array of imagery to draw the two eras together; bringing to life the 'fatboy' character from the You've Come A Long Way Baby album artwork; giving Mick and Keef the joyful abandon of Nineties club kids and wearing the same outfit as Norman in the original Rockefeller Skank video.
John Hassay, video commissioner for Fatboy Slim since the late Nineties, says it was a fairly easy decision to take the AI route considering the heritage of the artists involved and history surrounding the original tracks.
"Ai is at it’s best imagining things we’d have loved to actually happen and I don’t think there’s a better way of putting this one off band together," says Hassay, who also commissioned the AI-driven video for The Darkness's Rock 'N Roll Party Cowboy earlier this year.
"The dream was to have a prime time Norman spinning with Mick and Keef at Whisky Mist in 1965, the year that Satisfaction came out. Tom worked feverishly over the weekend and delivered 60 seconds of what looked very like a finished video.
"In pitching terms it’s impossible to ignore things like this. No one can be bothered reading these days. Everyone living on their phones. [They] just want to click play and be blown away. That was very much the case here though there has been a lot of back and forth to make sure we weren’t stepping on any rights holders toes and we drew heavily on a specific archive of reference imagery to keep things clean and legal.
"Tom has also added a magic all his own. He’s an Ai maven and a very clever chap. Also an absolute pleasure to work with. In commissioning terms this has been very hands on as I knew what we wanted but the director has really made this world his own."
David Knight - 15th Dec 2025
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- Tom Furse
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- John Hassay
David Knight - 15th Dec 2025