Arctic Monkeys Biography

"He's this dead skinny guy with big mad hair, red tinted glasses and drainpipe jeans, a proper character," raves Alex. "Everyone tells us we've got a shit band name but he was like 'That's great! There's no trees in the arctic! How would it survive?' He painted this picture instantly, a real creative mind!"

Hence the razor-sharp lyricism that fuels songs like 'A Certain Romance', a witty observation of small-town life where "there's only music so that there's new ringtones" and where going out could sometimes mean having a pool cue wrapped around your head. Elsewhere, there were grim tales of girls who'd ended up on the streets ("She don't do major credit cards, I doubt she does receipts" - 'Sun Goes Down') and glorious swipes at the rock'n'roll clones that arose on the back of the great garage rock boom of 2002 ("Yeah I'd like to tell you all my problems/You're not from New York City, you're from Rotherham" - Fake Tales Of San Francisco).
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