The Fat Boys

Fat Boys: Fat Boys (Sutra SUS 1015)

Review by RJ Smith, High Fidelity, 1985

HOW IGNOMINIOUS: Three ace rappers make a whole album of worth-it raps, and their names appear nowhere on the record. Truly, the Fat Boys are ...

The Fat Boys: Eat To The Beat

Interview by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 4 May 1985

Helen 'fat is a feminist issue' FitzGerald gets greedy with the FAT BOYS, who are turning rap into pap... or pop. ...

The Fat Boys: Wag Club, London

Live Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 4 May 1985

PLUMP IT UP! ...

The Fat Boys: Lean On Me

Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 29 June 1985

Chris Roberts gets sandwiched by the Fat Boys, and discovers fat is a faminist issue ...

Weather Girls: Big Girls Don't Cry (CBS); Fat Boys: Fat Boys Are Back (WEA)

Review by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 21 September 1985

Fat is a feminine issue ...

The Fat Boys: Crushin' (Urban/Polydor)

Review by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 26 September 1987

EVEN IN their days as a one-gag band, playing Sham 69 to Run DMC's Pistols, the Fat Boys were immensely (and I do mean immensely) ...