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Fatboy Slim still 'loses control' on stage and admits "rave demons" take over.
The 'Eat Sleep Rave Repeat' hitmaker, who has been one of the biggest names in dance music for more than 20 years, has been sober since entering rehab in 2009 for alcohol addiction and insists although he no longer drinks, he enjoys his shows more and still gets lost in the moment.
He told the Daily Star newspaper: "I cherish the shows more now. It's nice, actually being able to remember them afterwards. Before, it was me and the crowds having a big party together.
"It's still a party, but I feel directly involved now, and having been a DJ for so long I know how to press people's buttons to get them dancing.
"But I still lose control on stage, especially in the last half-hour. The rave demons take over, and I find myself doing dance moves I didn't know I had in me."
The 50-year-old star, real name Norman Cook, lives in Brighton with wife Zoe Ball, 43, and children Woody, 13, and Nelly, four, but insists he likes to ditch his dad image during festival season and will be heading to the likes of Creamfields and Glastonbury this year.
He said: "Once I'm on stage, I go from being responsible father-of-two to a giggling 15 year old, hell bent on mischief and hedonism.
"The crowds keep me young for those two hours on stage. But as soon as the show finishes, I'm spent. I'm knackered and go straight to bed."
The star also claims his teenage son Woody has started to realise his dad has the "coolest job in the world" and no longer finds it cringe-worthy.
He said: "He was perpetually embarrassed and would say, 'All you do is play loud music to a load of drunk people who shout at you', I'd go, 'Well, yeah, that is my genre'.
"But he came into the DJ booth at a show in Ibiza last summer and he started to feel the same intoxication I get from music. He told me afterwards, 'Dad, I'm beginning to get what you do now."

The Rolling Stones' former manager Prince Rupert Loewenstein has died.
The music industry veteran, who is credited for turning the fortune of the group from near bankruptcy to billions when he started working for them in the 1960s, passed away on May 20 after suffering a long illness, according to Independent.co.uk.
Prince, dubbed "the human calculator", managed the band - made up of Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood, along with former members Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor - for four decades, before they parted on amicable terms in 2007.
In his memoir, 'A Prince Among Stones', he admitted he wasn't interested in rock and pop music but wanted to help The Stones during financial difficulties.
He wrote: "I certainly felt that Mick was a sensible, honest person. And I was equally certain that I represented a chance for him to find a way out of a difficult situation. I was intrigued.
"So far as the Stones' music was concerned, however, I was not in tune with them, far from it. Rock and pop music was not something in which I was interested. I had heard some of The Beatles' music.
"Their music was sufficiently harmonic to be acceptable to people such as me. I only really took against rock 'n' roll when I heard the Stones.
"But the offer to look at the Stones' financial situation had come at a very good time for me both professionally and psychologically."
His funeral, which is expected to be attended by members of the band, will be held on Friday, May 30.
Prince's passing follows the tragic death of L'Wren Scott, the fashion designer girlfriend of Mick, who committed suicide in March.

Joey McIntyre is thankful to One Direction for making boy bands cool again.
The New Kids On The Block singer has confessed he and his bandmates - Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood, Jordan Knight and Jonathan Knight - are so grateful to the 'Midnight Memories' hitmakers that they've even started covering their tracks during their concerts.
Joey told the Daily Star newspaper: "It's fun to see One Direction's success, they have made people much more open to all types of music.
"It means people are more tolerant of our music too. We tip our hats to them in our new show with a cover or two."
The 'Hangin' Tough' hitmaker has also revealed that he's a fan of Miley Cyrus' risqué performances and thinks it's amazing she's still managing to shock people in the same way Madonna did during the height of their fame.
He said: "We did a few pelvic thrusts back then, but nothing like Miley. In this day and age to still be able to go too far is an achievement.
"I don't now what going too far even is any more. So kudos to her that she's pushing an envelope I didn't know was there.
"She gets complaints but it sounds to me like what they used to say about Madonna."

Nicki Minaj's new album was inspired by people who have let her down in her career.
The rapper and singer, who has released her new single 'Pills N Potions' from her third studio album 'The Pink Print', looked back on experiences where people have taken her for granted when writing the album.
She said: "I was just reflecting on people in my life who [have] come and gone, just thinking, what the hell does it all mean?"
"God bless 'em, I'm talking about lots of people, not anybody in particular, but I have come across a lot of people that I've given amazing opportunities to [who have let me down]."
The 31-year-old star, who is reportedly being sued for $30million by her former wig designer Terrence Davidson, who is accusing her of selling wigs based on his designs without permission, insists she's always nice to people and is often shocked when they turn against her.
She said: "I always give people enough rope to hang themselves with. In general, I just live my life and try and be super fair to everyone, so when you cross me, it's like, 'Really? Okay'."
Meanwhile, the brunette beauty has ditched her outrageous outfits and crazy wigs in favour of a more natural look and claims she always planned to go back to her old appearance.
She explained: "The album was more personal, so I think the look being stripped down goes really well with the third album. I always thought in my head, 'For my third album I wanna go back to my real hair'."
Talking to presenters on 'The Breakfast Club' on radio station Power 105, she added: "You can tell on 'Pills N Potions' that I'm just creating moments, it's important to me to keep it truthful and honest.
"Sometimes you're gonna feel like it's hardcore and sometimes it's going to feel like it's not but as long as it's good music, then that's all that matters to me at this point."

Quincy Jones has blasted the new Michael Jackson album 'Xscape'.
The legendary producer - who masterminded some of the late singer's biggest hits - thinks the posthumous recording was only released to "make money".
He said: "It's about money. They're trying to make money. And I understand it. Everybody's after money, the estate, the lawyers. It's about money.
Quincy admitted it "bothers" him to see so much of the 'Thriller' star's previously-unreleased music being made public but has learned to accept it has nothing to do with him.
Asked if he was bothered by the recordings, he told Jian Ghomeshi's 'Q' talk show on CBC Radio: "Yeah, but it's not my business anymore. They're not our business."
Quincy's comments come months after he launched a $10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit in relation to the recordings released after the 'Billie Jean' stars death in June 2009.
He alleged master recordings he had worked on were wrongfully edited and remixed so as to deprive him of back-end profit participation.
He also claimed he had been denied credit for his work and that MJJ Productions and Sony Music have entered into deals taking profits that should have been included in the calculation of royalties.

Alana Haim is "not afraid" to admit she was a huge fan of the Spice Girls.
The 22-year-old musician, who is in girl rock band Haim with sisters Este and Danielle, is known as Baby Haim because she loved Emma Bunton from the 90s pop group and is the youngest in her family.
She said: "The reason why I'm Baby Haim is because I was the biggest Spice Girls fan growing up. I always wanted to be Baby Spice growing up, but I didn't have blonde hair. When I was 16, one of my friends was like, 'You're Baby Haim, you're the baby of the family!' and I was like, 'Oh my God, dream come true, I can be like Baby Spice'. They were the first band I was a fanatic [for].
"It was Spice Girls and Destiny's Child, my two go-to bands. I had all the dolls, all the weird lollipops, all the movies. I was a f***ing huge Spice Girls fan, and I am not afraid to say it."
The Spice Girls - also made up of Mel C, Mel B, Victoria Beckham and Geri Halliwell - were known for their choreographed dance routines, and Haim have decided to show off their moves in the video for their track 'If I Could Change Your Mind'.
Alana added to TIME magazine: "[Veteran choreographer] Fatima [Robinson] definitely f**king whipped our asses into shape for sure. "We only had three days to choreograph it and perform.
"We really wanted to be actual dancers. I mean, we're not actual dancers ... we quickly realised that after day one."

Rita Ora wanted to name her album Hymen.
The 23-year-old singer - who is set to release her second studio album in September this year - was planning to name it after a mythical goddess of love and even considered 'Hymen', the Greek god of weddings and wedding songs, for the title.
She told the Daily Star newspaper: "I looked at calling it Hymen, that's a good one but probably not the best. It will be named after a love goddess but not Aphrodite or Venus, you'll have to wait and see."
Rita - who duets with DJ Mustard, Diplo, Mackelmore and the legendary Prince on the new album - admitted she was in awe of the 'Purple Rain' singer when they worked on a "sexy" track together, named 'Champagne Kisses'.
She said: "He's amazing, he's almost mythical. He's one of the very few legends we have left.
"He has made amazing sex anthems in the past. But our track is not obviously sexy, it's more like, 'What could that really mean?'"
She added: "I feel like he was born to send people amazing sounds. I'm all good now I've worked with him."
While Rita's lead single 'I Will Never Let You Down' has already topped the UK singles chart, she revealed she is yet to put the finishing touches to the album's final cut.
She said: "It's not finished yet. I keep going back and forth. I started it around Glastonbury last year. I find I have to go in there and rumble through the dirt before I find the gold, so I'll just keep going.
"It won't be finished until I have to send it off to the factory."

Janelle Monáe is "devastated" she has had to cancel her Australian tour due to illness.
The 'Electric Lady' singer, who was set to perform a number of dates on her Australian and New Zealand leg of her 'Golden Electric Tour', had been advised by doctors to scrap the gigs and rest.
According to Billboard, a statement issued by promoters, Live Nation Australasia, said: "It has been confirmed that the remainder of the Golden Electric tour has been cancelled and there will be no rescheduled performances.
"Ms Monáe is devastated at not being able to perform for her fans and has vowed to return to our shores in the not-too-distant future.
"Ticket holders will be contacted by the relevant ticketing outlet to advise of the process for obtaining a refund."
On Saturday (17.05.14), Janelle cancelled her Melbourne show after support act Kimbra's opening performance, even though her band was already set up.
The singer then cancelled Monday night's show in Sydney and has now pulled the plug on the remaining dates.
Kimbra took to Twitter to wish Janelle well, posting: "So disappointed that we can't continue the #goldenelectrictour - we wish @JanelleMonae the speediest of recoveries. We will be back. X (sic)"

Sam Smith and Disclosure have teamed up with Beats by Dr Dre to create a new film.
The stars - who released the Top 20 song 'Latch' - have worked on a short film to tell the story of how the track was written and became a chart hit, propelling the artists to international fame.
In the video, Disclosure gush about Sam's vocal range and joke: "I was still fully expecting Sam to be a Samantha and he was like a big female singer. He has a voice of an angel."
The 22-year-old singer-songwriter said he comes from a "whole different world of music" and admits he had no idea what electronic music was before he started working with artists like Disclosure - made up of brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence.
He explained: "I grew up listening to these classic [love] songs and they've been lost from the radio for so long, I feel like we're bringing it back."
The promo, which has already had more than 54,000 views on YouTube, is the second part of the Beat by Beat series which was launched with dance act Rudimental earlier this year, which goes behind the beat and demonstrates how some of the world's biggest artists create their tracks.
Meanwhile, Sam has embarked on a north American tour this month, playing at venues in Toronto, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco and more.
To view the video search 'Beats by Dre' and 'Sam Smith' on YouTube.