Early Life and Education
Quentin Leo Cook was born in Bromley, and raised in Reigate, Surrey, England, and was educated at Reigate Grammar School. He played drums in Disque Attack, a British New Wave-influenced rock band. When frontman Charlie Alcock was told by his parents that he had to give up the band to concentrate on his O levels, Cook took over as lead vocalist. At Reigate College, Cook met Paul Heaton with whom he formed the Stomping Pondfrogs.
At 18, Cook went to the Brighton Polytechnic to read a B.A. in English, politics, and sociology. Although he had begun DJing some years before, it was at this time that he began to develop his skills on the thriving Brighton club scene, known as DJ Quentox, laying the base for Brighton's hip hop scene.
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