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Biography of Alex Turner

Alexander David Turner is an English singer-songwriter and musician best known as the frontman of the rock band Arctic Monkeys. He co-founded Arctic Monkeys at age 16 in Sheffield, England. Their debut album became the fastest-selling debut album in British history. Turner has since released six albums with Arctic Monkeys that have experimented with different musical styles like desert rock and indie pop. He has also recorded two albums with his side project The Last Shadow Puppets and provided a solo soundtrack for the film Submarine. Each of Turner's eight studio albums, whether with Arctic Monkeys or other projects, have reached number one on the UK Album Chart.

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Biography of Alex Turner

Alexander David Turner is an English singer-songwriter and musician best known as the frontman of the rock band Arctic Monkeys. He co-founded Arctic Monkeys at age 16 in Sheffield, England. Their debut album became the fastest-selling debut album in British history. Turner has since released six albums with Arctic Monkeys that have experimented with different musical styles like desert rock and indie pop. He has also recorded two albums with his side project The Last Shadow Puppets and provided a solo soundtrack for the film Submarine. Each of Turner's eight studio albums, whether with Arctic Monkeys or other projects, have reached number one on the UK Album Chart.

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Biography of Alex Turner

Alexander David Turner (born 6 January 1986) is an English singer-songwriter,


musician, and record producer. He is best known as the frontman and principal
songwriter of the rock band Arctic Monkeys, with whom he has released six albums.
He has also recorded with his side project The Last Shadow Puppets and as a solo
artist.
Turner was born and raised in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, the only child of two
secondary school teachers. When he was 16, he and three friends formed Arctic
Monkeys. Their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
(2006), became the fastest-selling debut album in British history and was ranked at
No. 30 on Rolling Stone's list of the greatest debut albums of all time.[1] The band's
subsequent studio albums, Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), Humbug (2009),
Suck It and See (2011), AM (2013) and Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018),
have experimented with desert rock, indie pop, R&B, and lounge music. Arctic
Monkeys headlined Glastonbury Festival in both 2007 and 2013, and performed
during the 2012 London Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
Turner and Miles Kane have released two orchestral pop albums – The Age Of The
Understatement (2008) and Everything You've Come To Expect (2016) – as the co-
frontmen of The Last Shadow Puppets. Turner provided an acoustic soundtrack for
the feature film Submarine (2010). He co-wrote and co-produced Alexandra Savior's
debut album, Belladonna of Sadness (2017).
Turner's lyricism, ranging from kitchen sink realism to surrealist wordplay, has been
widely praised. Each of his eight studio albums have reached number one on the
UK Album Chart. He has won seven Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello Award, and has
been nominated for the Mercury Prize five times, winning once.

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