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Arctic Monkeys: Suck It And See

Paul Moody, Q, July 2011

IN THE SPRING of 2006, with the reverberations from the success of Arctic Monkeys' debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not still ringing in his ears, Alex Turner set about devising a survival plan for the culture quake he had unwittingly started.

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