This album artwork is synonymous with FatBoy Slim. As Norman Cook writes in the accompanying letter he wanted to ...re-cycle the fat kid image (my greatest visual hit!) The photographic image was first used on the cover of FatBoy Slim's album You've Come A Long Way, Baby, 1998, and Cook wanted to develop upon this widely recognised image for his Greatest Hits album Why Try Harder. The artist he commissioned, Julie-Anne Gilburt, elaborates in her accompanying letter In initial sketches and paintings we even thought of the fat kid with a skirt or even no pants! We also tried many different 'halo' ideas and backgrounds.... As Cook summarises Julie-Anne said she was proper good at painting angel wings and renaissance fresco's so off we went in that direction... The complete set of four canvases in this lot, when superimposed together form the recognisible cover for FatBoy's Greatest Hits album.
Cook concludes his letter We never found out who the fat kid in the picture was but to us he is an angel.