Arctic Monkeys: Believe the Hype

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Arctic Monkeys changed the music industry forever; this is the story of how they did it.

Two Glastonbury headline sets and the fastest selling debut album in British history. Arctic Monkeys changed the music industry forever; this is the story of how they did it.

Six number one albums, two Glastonbury headline sets, and the fastest selling debut album in British history. Arctic Monkeys changed the music industry forever; this is the story of how they did it.

Arctic Monkeys: Believe the Hype: 1. Anticipation

1. Anticipation

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The year is 2005, and four lads from Sheffield are about to define their generation.

The year is 2005, and four lads from Sheffield are about to define their generation. So what does that generation look like? And why is it so ready to greet the Monkeys?

Curtains up on the moment just before Whatever People Say’s release. On the video to their debut single, I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor the band issued a warning: ‘Don’t Believe the Hype’. Fat lot of good it did; the single went number one –  and the band, four baby-faced Northerners, barely out of their teens, are already being described as the greatest thing to happen to British music in a generation. So what’s the world they’re arriving into? And why is it so ready to greet the Arctics? A nostalgia-fuelled survey of the landscape of of the mid-noughties – and a snapshot of the band in the eye of the storm, poised to change everything.

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