Talk:You've Come a Long Way, Baby

Fucking in Heaven
The third song not only mentions the word "fucking" 105 times, it's actually named "Fucking in Heaven". I checked this from my own copy of the "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" album. &mdash; J I P | Talk 15:24, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I think it's called "Illin In Heaven" in the US. Kinitawowi 15:08, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * I had the US version of this album and it was called simply "In Heaven". Amazon confirms this.--TexasDex 15:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Cover artwork (update)
Actually, Irisismykid is correct, the cover photo is a stock/press agency photo, specifically from a Rex Features agency, taken at Fat Peoples Festival in Danville, Virginia in USA at 1983. Actually, this explains perfectly his awesome T-shirt and his facial expression too - he WAS showing off, and not ashamed or discomfortable with his stature at all, being at a special event for obese persons. If you're interested, here's the proof link for that: - please note, this is kinda exclusive, I never saw this original photo anywhere on the Internet ever (and Google Images search can confirm that too), and I just recently discovered it, while writing an article for a musical magazine in Russia, about the story behind this record cover. For most curious, here's high-resolution scan of the back cover of original UK version of "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" (this image not mine, I just googled it):. If you look close enough, you may see all info in credits section below, citing: Front cover image courtesy of Rex Features. And at the end, Design and other photographs by Red Design. I actually added a section about "Cover artwork" to the article, because all that is well documented, so now, for the first time, detailed and exact information about this, putting to rest all urban legends and versions about the cover and the source of the photo. --LevKantor (talk) 19:49, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * This got me intrigued about this Fat Peoples Festival. Is it still active? I tried googling for it, but got only hits for this article and its mirrors, and the Rex Features site. Nothing about the actual festival. J I P  &#124; Talk 18:49, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Cover
Who's the fat guy? I assumed that was FBS, but I realised it wasn't. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.172.117.45 (talk) 11:43, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I've always wondered that myself. Is he a friend or co-worker of FBS, or just someone he happened to see? J I P  | Talk 18:49, 29 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I read that it was a stock photo dating from the 70s (?) and nobody could find out who the "cover star" is. 143.252.80.100 (talk) 19:10, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Does anyone actually know???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.251.106 (talk) 21:39, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * If it's indeed a stock photo, it's possible that no one indeed knows. The photographer who took the original picture might have thought he's well within his rights to photograph random people on the street, because it's a public place, and he's not portraying any of the people in an impolite or insulting setting, so he could just have taken the picture and not bothered to actually talk to any of the people, so he doesn't know the fat guy's name. I haven't seen the original photograph, only the album cover, but it's possible that the original photograph included much more than what we see on the album cover, thus not making the fat guy stand out. That might have been FBS's or the record combany's idea. The fat guy knows his own name, but he might not know he's on the album cover, so he hasn't thought of the chance to let people know about it. J I P  | Talk 20:58, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

I did read/hear somewhere that the guy on the cover tried to sue Fat Boy Slim or the record label, because they either didn't get his permission to use the picture or he wasn't be paid for it. Whether he was successful or not I can't remember, but seeming as the album is still being issued with that cover I assume nothing came of it, or I imagined the whole thing. Jackacon (talk) 10:36, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

That guy appears in the final minute of the "Right here, right now"-videoclip (test it, it´s great!) as an actor. I think, that puts a lot of these theories to grave. 213.166.53.112 (talk) 18:49, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

The guy in the video is an actor made up to look like the cover. The man on the actual cover is from a late 70's/early 80's stock/agency photograph from a sort of country fair (he is wearing a WAKG radio station promotional pin). I recall seeing this photo in magazines like The Face in the UK in the Eighties and it became quite familiar because of juxtaposition of the immodest slogan on the t-shirt and the clearly obese man wearing it. Norman Cook probably recalled it from that time too and thus choose it for his album cover. The identity of the actual guy in the photo is unknown and probably always will be. Irisismykid (talk) 19:05, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Other stuff
This link says that in Australia there was a bonus track called "How Can They Hear Us" and in Japan there was also a bonus track called "The World Went Down". It also says that "Build It Up - Tear It Down" is a single. Here, it doesn't say anything about it.

Is the stuff above true? - Holiday56 04:56, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

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