{"id":214101,"date":"2025-12-31T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/fatboy-slim-finds-positive-in-clash-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:01:17","slug":"fatboy-slim-finds-positive-in-clash-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/fatboy-slim-finds-positive-in-clash-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatboy Slim finds positive in Clash lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-12-31\" datetime=\"1767178877\" pubdate=\"\">31 December 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Fatboy Slim got to meet his \u201cheroes\u201d as a direct result of being sued.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Fatboy Slim was sued by The Clash<\/p>\n<p>The Praise You hitmaker \u2013 whose real name is Norman Cook \u2013 was the subject of legal action from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/paul-simonon\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,paul-simonon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Simonon<\/a> of the Clash after his Beats International single Dub Be Good to Me sampled the baseline from the punk group\u2019s Guns of Brixton.<\/p>\n<p>While the superstar DJ insisted the rules of sampling weren\u2019t clear at the time and he ended up having to give The Clash songwriting credits and an unspecified payment, he can still see a silver lining in the situation.<\/p>\n<p>He told BANG Showbiz and other media: \u201cThis was really bizarre because The Clash were my favourite band in the world, still are. And to meet your heroes with a phone call saying, \u2018I\u2019m going to sue you and I want a very, very large amount of money out of you motherf***er.\u2019 It\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, hi Paul.\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody really knew what the laws were. But I settled it with Paul. I had this pow wow with him and we were fine. We came to a figure that suited both and I got to know Mick and Joe through it as well. So through the worst of introductions I got to meet my heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nFatboy Slim claimed Paul only took legal action due to his girlfriend at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: \u201cIt was the early days of sampling and no one really knew what the rules were, we didn\u2019t have lawyers who were specialists in sample clearance. So a lot of us had put records out with samples on and no one had ever said anything.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThere\u2019s a little adage in the music business \u2018with the hits come the writs\u2019. So when Dub Be Good To Me was a really big hit Paul Simonon from The Clash, who I\u2019d knew had heard the record before and was fine with it, but when it got to number one his girlfriend was like, \u2018Did he give you any money for that?\u2019 And he was like, \u2018No, do you think he should?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe sorted it out. The thing was, his girlfriend worked out what she thought I owed him. She said, \u2018It\u2019s number one, you\u2019re on Top of the Pops.\u2019 I said, \u2018You know that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that it\u2019s made hundreds of thousands of pounds.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/fatboy-slim-finds-positive-clash-lawsuit-1435305.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 December 2025 Fatboy Slim got to meet his \u201cheroes\u201d as a direct result of being sued. Fatboy Slim was sued by The Clash The Praise You hitmaker \u2013 whose real name is Norman Cook \u2013 was the subject of legal action from Paul Simonon of the Clash after his Beats International single Dub Be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9692,13366,13367],"class_list":{"0":"post-214101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-fatboy-slim","9":"tag-paul-simonon","10":"tag-the-clash"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}