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After 25 years of countless Limewire and Napster downloads — and let’s face it: viruses — you can finally listen to Fatboy Slim’s sample of the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” formally titled “Satisfaction Skank.” Born out of boredom with playing the same song over again, Fatboy Slim, real name Norman Cook, tells BBC News how it became a hit at his concerts. He explains, “It was my secret weapon. I had this tune that nobody else had, and it was a really good encore.” Mick Jaggar had been a fan of the remix, but his legal team wasn’t, and despite asking four separate times, Cook couldn’t get approval. “I got a call from Mick Jagger and he said he’d heard it and he liked the mix,” Cook explained. “But his management was just like, ‘No, not even negotiable’.”
Now, the Stones were the ones who reached out to Cook and gave him the master tapes in an armored van so he could make a better quality mix of the tracks. Included in the release was a new music video, where an AI Fatboy Slim and the Stones came together for their first legal gig. But don’t be so heartbroken, think we’ll never get an IRL version of the remix. Cook tells NME, “Never say never – they’re alive and I’m alive, and none of us are ever going to retire.”
