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And they played their first gig in a Sheffield pub 10 years ago and made £27 from ticket sales.
Since then, it's fair to say life has changed just a bit for the Arctic Monkeys.
Four number one albums, a headline set at Glastonbury and an Olympic opening [E] ceremony
under their belt.
They're back now with their fifth album.
The critics are impressed.
I met the band's frontman Alex Turner to find out what could be next in store.
It's 10 [F#] years since you did your first gig as the Arctic Monkeys.
Yeah.
June 2003.
The Grapes.
Yeah.
That's where it all began.
Life's changed forever.
[D] Now [F#] it's three, four, one.
[C#] Had very successful albums, but the [G] reviews for this one, 10 out of 10,
10 out of 10, five stars.
Has that blown you away a bit?
Well, I didn't really read reviews, although I have in like the last week,
but maybe that's because [F] they've all been really good.
[F#] So I know there's nothing to be afraid of.
[C#] [F#m] People [D] have their own [D#] interpretations of your music and your lyrics particularly speak to
people in a certain way.
[A] Essentially, this album [D#] is a lot of songs [N] about wanting the [D#] girl and
getting drunk and [G#] texting the girl and wanting to go back to the girl.
Yeah, it's trouble.
Yeah.
It's sort of always, that's been, that's really is what I've been banging on about the
whole time really.
It's not as under the microscope perhaps as like our first record was very kind of
like I was [C] pointing at things and talking about them.
Whereas now it's maybe it's a little bit
more comes from within somewhere.
I can feel the breeze, [G] it's a time that sticks around like a tissue.
[D] [D#] As the waves of the [C] glass are leaving.
What comes first?
Is it [Gm] the lyrics or is it an inspirational piece of like a hook or something?
It's [G] different every time.
On this record, a lot of it came from [C#] the music and I suppose the drums
and the bass really and I'd have those [G] guys record little ideas that we'd [G#] all had and I'd
kind of write to these kind of scratchy recordings of that rather than sit there with the acoustic
guitar [G] or something.
I think that's responsible for the way the melodies move a little bit on this.
[Gm]
[Gm]
There's a song on the album, the last one, I Want To Be Yours, which is not your words at all.
[G#] Tell us a bit [F] about that.
Well, the words to I Want To Be Yours come from a poem by John Cooper Clark.
I'm a very big fan of his.
It's one of those poems that [G] the words just, I mean, they just touch people.
It's very kind of
down to earth expression of [N] loving someone.
Yeah, I suppose as far as well, I suppose, yeah, when you mentioned in the vacuum cleaner,
you kind of can't really get any more.
And what's the cut bit when he talks about the vacuum cleaner?
It's, what is it?
Let me be your vacuum cleaner breathing in your dust.
He was the first and probably only person that admitted to liking the name Arctic Monkeys,
because it's a pretty dreadful band name.
I think we all agree.
We met him after his show and we sort of just formed the band then.
We were like, yeah, we've got this band going, Mr.
Clark.
And he's like, oh, that's great.
It's just a picture of trauma, you know,
it's this monkey like in the snow and he [Em] doesn't know what he's [G#] doing there.
So we stuck with it probably based on that.
[F#m] They say the jingles [Bm] when the sun goes down, they say the jingles when the sun goes [Em] down.
[F#m] Around here, [Bm]
[A] around [F#] here.
[G] You've done five albums now.
You've done the Olympics opening ceremony and you've played Glastonbury twice.
You've won all sorts of awards.
What else is there to achieve?
I suppose the goals aren't as easy to explain as just a show.
I mean, yeah, there's places I'd love to go and play, but
maybe the ambition lies [F#] in the studio a little bit more now.
[A] [E]
I don't know what we're [F#] looking for anymore.
I said I'd let that [A] you look for on the dance floor.
[E] When I said I was interviewing you, people [C#] did say, is he ever going to do Strictly?
[G] Because they bet that you'd look good on the dance floor.
Of course.
So.
Definitely.
Yeah?
Yeah.
2014?
Yeah.
Should I give you the contract to sign now?
Sure.
I should have been the one that said, I bet you look good on the dance floor, shouldn't I?
Except that I'm not sure that would be accurate.
Well.
Look a bit of a mess on the dance floor.
I doubt that.
Well, it's lovely to see you.
Nice to see you, Susannah.
Thanks very much indeed.
Good luck [E] on the floor.
Thank you.
You just, you get such a rapport, don't you, there with him?
People never said to you, go and ask him about Strictly.
Don't deny it now.
You were, ask him about [D#m] Strictly, you said.
The Arctic Monkeys' new album, AM, is out now.
And off the back of that really exhilarating encounter, we have
Since then, it's fair to say life has changed just a bit for the Arctic Monkeys.
Four number one albums, a headline set at Glastonbury and an Olympic opening [E] ceremony
under their belt.
They're back now with their fifth album.
The critics are impressed.
I met the band's frontman Alex Turner to find out what could be next in store.
It's 10 [F#] years since you did your first gig as the Arctic Monkeys.
Yeah.
June 2003.
The Grapes.
Yeah.
That's where it all began.
Life's changed forever.
[D] Now [F#] it's three, four, one.
[C#] Had very successful albums, but the [G] reviews for this one, 10 out of 10,
10 out of 10, five stars.
Has that blown you away a bit?
Well, I didn't really read reviews, although I have in like the last week,
but maybe that's because [F] they've all been really good.
[F#] So I know there's nothing to be afraid of.
[C#] [F#m] People [D] have their own [D#] interpretations of your music and your lyrics particularly speak to
people in a certain way.
[A] Essentially, this album [D#] is a lot of songs [N] about wanting the [D#] girl and
getting drunk and [G#] texting the girl and wanting to go back to the girl.
Yeah, it's trouble.
Yeah.
It's sort of always, that's been, that's really is what I've been banging on about the
whole time really.
It's not as under the microscope perhaps as like our first record was very kind of
like I was [C] pointing at things and talking about them.
Whereas now it's maybe it's a little bit
more comes from within somewhere.
I can feel the breeze, [G] it's a time that sticks around like a tissue.
[D] [D#] As the waves of the [C] glass are leaving.
What comes first?
Is it [Gm] the lyrics or is it an inspirational piece of like a hook or something?
It's [G] different every time.
On this record, a lot of it came from [C#] the music and I suppose the drums
and the bass really and I'd have those [G] guys record little ideas that we'd [G#] all had and I'd
kind of write to these kind of scratchy recordings of that rather than sit there with the acoustic
guitar [G] or something.
I think that's responsible for the way the melodies move a little bit on this.
[Gm]
[Gm]
There's a song on the album, the last one, I Want To Be Yours, which is not your words at all.
[G#] Tell us a bit [F] about that.
Well, the words to I Want To Be Yours come from a poem by John Cooper Clark.
I'm a very big fan of his.
It's one of those poems that [G] the words just, I mean, they just touch people.
It's very kind of
down to earth expression of [N] loving someone.
Yeah, I suppose as far as well, I suppose, yeah, when you mentioned in the vacuum cleaner,
you kind of can't really get any more.
And what's the cut bit when he talks about the vacuum cleaner?
It's, what is it?
Let me be your vacuum cleaner breathing in your dust.
He was the first and probably only person that admitted to liking the name Arctic Monkeys,
because it's a pretty dreadful band name.
I think we all agree.
We met him after his show and we sort of just formed the band then.
We were like, yeah, we've got this band going, Mr.
Clark.
And he's like, oh, that's great.
It's just a picture of trauma, you know,
it's this monkey like in the snow and he [Em] doesn't know what he's [G#] doing there.
So we stuck with it probably based on that.
[F#m] They say the jingles [Bm] when the sun goes down, they say the jingles when the sun goes [Em] down.
[F#m] Around here, [Bm]
[A] around [F#] here.
[G] You've done five albums now.
You've done the Olympics opening ceremony and you've played Glastonbury twice.
You've won all sorts of awards.
What else is there to achieve?
I suppose the goals aren't as easy to explain as just a show.
I mean, yeah, there's places I'd love to go and play, but
maybe the ambition lies [F#] in the studio a little bit more now.
[A] [E]
I don't know what we're [F#] looking for anymore.
I said I'd let that [A] you look for on the dance floor.
[E] When I said I was interviewing you, people [C#] did say, is he ever going to do Strictly?
[G] Because they bet that you'd look good on the dance floor.
Of course.
So.
Definitely.
Yeah?
Yeah.
2014?
Yeah.
Should I give you the contract to sign now?
Sure.
I should have been the one that said, I bet you look good on the dance floor, shouldn't I?
Except that I'm not sure that would be accurate.
Well.
Look a bit of a mess on the dance floor.
I doubt that.
Well, it's lovely to see you.
Nice to see you, Susannah.
Thanks very much indeed.
Good luck [E] on the floor.
Thank you.
You just, you get such a rapport, don't you, there with him?
People never said to you, go and ask him about Strictly.
Don't deny it now.
You were, ask him about [D#m] Strictly, you said.
The Arctic Monkeys' new album, AM, is out now.
And off the back of that really exhilarating encounter, we have
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And they played their first gig in a Sheffield pub 10 years ago and made £27 from ticket sales.
Since then, it's fair to say life has changed just a bit for the Arctic Monkeys.
Four number one albums, a headline set at Glastonbury and an Olympic opening [E] ceremony
under their belt.
They're back now with their fifth album.
The critics are impressed.
I met the band's frontman Alex Turner to find out what could be next in store.
It's 10 [F#] years since you did your first gig as the Arctic Monkeys.
Yeah.
June 2003.
_ The Grapes.
Yeah.
That's where it all began.
Life's changed forever.
[D] Now [F#] it's three, four, one.
[C#] Had very successful albums, but the [G] reviews for this one, 10 out of 10,
10 out of 10, five stars.
Has that blown you away a bit?
Well, I _ _ didn't really read reviews, although I have in like the last week,
but maybe that's because [F] they've all been really good.
[F#] So I know there's nothing to be afraid of. _ _
[C#] _ _ [F#m] People [D] have their own [D#] interpretations of your music and your lyrics particularly speak to
people in a certain way.
[A] Essentially, this album [D#] is a lot of songs [N] about wanting the [D#] girl and
getting drunk and [G#] texting the girl and wanting to go back to the girl.
Yeah, it's trouble.
Yeah.
It's sort of always, that's been, that's really is what I've been banging on about the
whole time really.
It's not as under the microscope perhaps as like our first record was very kind of
like I was [C] pointing at things and talking about them.
Whereas now it's maybe it's a little bit
more comes from within somewhere.
I can feel the breeze, [G] it's a time that sticks around like a tissue.
[D] _ [D#] As the waves of the [C] glass are leaving.
What comes first?
Is it [Gm] the lyrics or is it an inspirational piece of like a hook or something?
It's [G] different every time.
On this record, a lot of it came from _ [C#] the music and I suppose the drums
and the bass really and I'd have those [G] guys record little ideas that we'd [G#] all had and I'd
kind of write to these kind of scratchy recordings of that rather than sit there with the acoustic
guitar [G] or something.
I think that's responsible for the way the melodies move a little bit on this.
_ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ There's a song on the album, the last one, I Want To Be Yours, which is not your words at all.
[G#] Tell us a bit [F] about that.
Well, the words to I Want To Be Yours come from a poem by John Cooper Clark.
I'm a very big fan of his.
It's one of those poems that [G] the words just, I mean, they just touch people.
It's very kind of
down to earth expression of [N] loving someone.
Yeah, I suppose as far as well, I suppose, yeah, when you mentioned in the vacuum cleaner,
you kind of can't really get any more.
And what's the cut bit when he talks about the vacuum cleaner?
It's, what is it?
Let me _ be your vacuum cleaner breathing in your dust.
He was the first and probably only person that admitted to liking the name Arctic Monkeys,
because it's a pretty dreadful band name.
I think we all agree.
We met him after his show and we sort of just formed the band then.
We were like, yeah, we've got this band going, Mr.
Clark.
And he's like, oh, that's great.
It's just a picture of trauma, you know,
it's this monkey like in the snow and he [Em] doesn't know what he's [G#] doing there.
So we stuck with it probably based on that.
[F#m] They say the jingles [Bm] when the sun goes down, they say the jingles when the sun goes [Em] down.
[F#m] Around here, _ [Bm] _
[A] around _ [F#] here.
[G] You've done five albums now.
You've done the Olympics opening ceremony and you've played Glastonbury twice.
You've won all sorts of awards.
What else is there to achieve?
I suppose the goals aren't as _ easy to explain as just a show.
I mean, yeah, there's places I'd love to go and play, but
maybe the ambition lies [F#] in the studio a little bit more now.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
I don't know what we're [F#] looking for anymore.
I said I'd let that [A] you look for on the dance floor.
[E] When I said I was interviewing you, people [C#] did say, is he ever going to do Strictly?
[G] _ _ Because they bet that you'd look good on the dance floor.
_ Of course.
So.
Definitely.
Yeah?
Yeah.
2014?
Yeah. _
Should I give you the contract to sign now?
Sure.
I should have been the one that said, I bet you look good on the dance floor, shouldn't I?
Except that I'm not sure that would be accurate.
Well.
Look a bit of a mess on the dance floor.
_ I doubt that.
Well, it's lovely to see you.
Nice to see you, Susannah.
Thanks very much indeed.
Good luck [E] on the floor.
Thank you.
You just, you get such a rapport, don't you, there with him?
People never said to you, go and ask him about Strictly.
Don't deny it now.
You were, ask him about [D#m] Strictly, you said.
The Arctic Monkeys' new album, AM, is out now.
And off the back of that really exhilarating encounter, we have
Since then, it's fair to say life has changed just a bit for the Arctic Monkeys.
Four number one albums, a headline set at Glastonbury and an Olympic opening [E] ceremony
under their belt.
They're back now with their fifth album.
The critics are impressed.
I met the band's frontman Alex Turner to find out what could be next in store.
It's 10 [F#] years since you did your first gig as the Arctic Monkeys.
Yeah.
June 2003.
_ The Grapes.
Yeah.
That's where it all began.
Life's changed forever.
[D] Now [F#] it's three, four, one.
[C#] Had very successful albums, but the [G] reviews for this one, 10 out of 10,
10 out of 10, five stars.
Has that blown you away a bit?
Well, I _ _ didn't really read reviews, although I have in like the last week,
but maybe that's because [F] they've all been really good.
[F#] So I know there's nothing to be afraid of. _ _
[C#] _ _ [F#m] People [D] have their own [D#] interpretations of your music and your lyrics particularly speak to
people in a certain way.
[A] Essentially, this album [D#] is a lot of songs [N] about wanting the [D#] girl and
getting drunk and [G#] texting the girl and wanting to go back to the girl.
Yeah, it's trouble.
Yeah.
It's sort of always, that's been, that's really is what I've been banging on about the
whole time really.
It's not as under the microscope perhaps as like our first record was very kind of
like I was [C] pointing at things and talking about them.
Whereas now it's maybe it's a little bit
more comes from within somewhere.
I can feel the breeze, [G] it's a time that sticks around like a tissue.
[D] _ [D#] As the waves of the [C] glass are leaving.
What comes first?
Is it [Gm] the lyrics or is it an inspirational piece of like a hook or something?
It's [G] different every time.
On this record, a lot of it came from _ [C#] the music and I suppose the drums
and the bass really and I'd have those [G] guys record little ideas that we'd [G#] all had and I'd
kind of write to these kind of scratchy recordings of that rather than sit there with the acoustic
guitar [G] or something.
I think that's responsible for the way the melodies move a little bit on this.
_ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ There's a song on the album, the last one, I Want To Be Yours, which is not your words at all.
[G#] Tell us a bit [F] about that.
Well, the words to I Want To Be Yours come from a poem by John Cooper Clark.
I'm a very big fan of his.
It's one of those poems that [G] the words just, I mean, they just touch people.
It's very kind of
down to earth expression of [N] loving someone.
Yeah, I suppose as far as well, I suppose, yeah, when you mentioned in the vacuum cleaner,
you kind of can't really get any more.
And what's the cut bit when he talks about the vacuum cleaner?
It's, what is it?
Let me _ be your vacuum cleaner breathing in your dust.
He was the first and probably only person that admitted to liking the name Arctic Monkeys,
because it's a pretty dreadful band name.
I think we all agree.
We met him after his show and we sort of just formed the band then.
We were like, yeah, we've got this band going, Mr.
Clark.
And he's like, oh, that's great.
It's just a picture of trauma, you know,
it's this monkey like in the snow and he [Em] doesn't know what he's [G#] doing there.
So we stuck with it probably based on that.
[F#m] They say the jingles [Bm] when the sun goes down, they say the jingles when the sun goes [Em] down.
[F#m] Around here, _ [Bm] _
[A] around _ [F#] here.
[G] You've done five albums now.
You've done the Olympics opening ceremony and you've played Glastonbury twice.
You've won all sorts of awards.
What else is there to achieve?
I suppose the goals aren't as _ easy to explain as just a show.
I mean, yeah, there's places I'd love to go and play, but
maybe the ambition lies [F#] in the studio a little bit more now.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
I don't know what we're [F#] looking for anymore.
I said I'd let that [A] you look for on the dance floor.
[E] When I said I was interviewing you, people [C#] did say, is he ever going to do Strictly?
[G] _ _ Because they bet that you'd look good on the dance floor.
_ Of course.
So.
Definitely.
Yeah?
Yeah.
2014?
Yeah. _
Should I give you the contract to sign now?
Sure.
I should have been the one that said, I bet you look good on the dance floor, shouldn't I?
Except that I'm not sure that would be accurate.
Well.
Look a bit of a mess on the dance floor.
_ I doubt that.
Well, it's lovely to see you.
Nice to see you, Susannah.
Thanks very much indeed.
Good luck [E] on the floor.
Thank you.
You just, you get such a rapport, don't you, there with him?
People never said to you, go and ask him about Strictly.
Don't deny it now.
You were, ask him about [D#m] Strictly, you said.
The Arctic Monkeys' new album, AM, is out now.
And off the back of that really exhilarating encounter, we have
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