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The Kooks cover shoot for their Inside In/Inside Out album

The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out at 20: Facts about the debut album

The Kooks

Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys performs at the Reading Festival, Reading on 26 August 2006

How Alex Turner’s driving instructor influenced Arctic Monkeys’ Mardy Bum…

Arctic Monkeys

Alex Turner performing in 2006 and the band's I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor artwork inset

Alex Turner thought I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor was "reet boring": "They're not our best lyrics"

Arctic Monkeys

The cover to Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, featuring Chris McClure... and Andy Nicholson's original snapshot.

How Chris McClure ended up appearing on the cover of Arctic Monkeys' debut album

Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys released their debut album Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not in January 2006

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not: The stories behind each song

Arctic Monkeys

Alex Turner performs in 2005 and scenes from Arctic Monkeys' When The Sun Goes Down video

The story of Arctic Monkeys' When The Sun Goes Down and why it's the band's bleakest song to date

Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys in 2026 and the new HELP (2) album.

Arctic Monkeys' new song: Listen to Opening Night - the band's first track in four years & the first HELP (2) single

Arctic Monkeys

Robbie Williams in 2022 and The Beatles in 1964

Robbie Williams on course to top The Beatles record with 16th number one album BRITPOP

Sam Fender, Wolf Alice, Wet Leg and Pulp are all up for BRIT Awards in 2026

Sam Fender, Pulp and Wolf Alice among BRIT Awards 2026 nominees: See the full list here...

Zak Starkey and the Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher

Zak Starkey says Liam and Noel Gallagher “never even argued once” while he was in Oasis

Thom Yorke performs in 2024

Radiohead share Thom Yorke’s pre-mix playlist for their 2025 European tour dates

Arctic Monkeys press

Arctic Monkeys to release new track as part of "upcoming project" with War Child this week

Arctic Monkeys

The man who delivered the famous line on screen - actor Albert Finney in Saturday Night Sunday Morning (1960)

Who came up with the title of Arctic Monkeys' debut album?

Arctic Monkeys

Placebo in 1996: "It was very, very important for us to not be ashamed."

How Placebo's Nancy Boy kicked against the "laddism" of Britpop

Placebo

Arctic Monkeys in 2022: Jamie Cook, Matt Helders, Alex Turner and Nick O'Malley.

What are Arctic Monkeys' biggest songs?

Arctic Monkeys

Johnny Vaughan with Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett

Bradley Cooper talks "sore point" of missing out on Oasis Live ’25 shows: "I can't believe you brought that up"

Green Day press

Green Day to perform at the Super Bowl 60 opening ceremony in 2026

Green Day

Dave Grohl in London, 1997, around the time of the release of The Colour & The Shape

Who is Foo Fighters' My Hero about? The story of the 1998 anthem