Arctic Monkeys Learnt Guitar From Oasis Chord Books

Arctic Monkeys have revealed that they learnt to play guitar through Oasis chord books and the James Bond theme tune.

Frontman Alex Turner says that he only got an acoustic guitar back in the summer of 2001 and could only play two chords.

That Christmas he got an electric guitar and starting practising with Jamie Cook (Cookie).

He told the Star: “Cookie could play the James Bond theme but I could never get him interested in being in a band at the time.

“Then he got Oasis chord books and learned them, but only chords. None of us were good enough to do solos but I got into it.

“I got James Bond sorted, then wanted to move on and that.”

Showing his young age, speaking about the albums that influenced him when he was younger, Alex said: “‘Be Here Now’ was a big record, but we weren’t old enough for the first two Oasis albums.”

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Photo by: Shirlaine Forrest