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Article: The Arctic Monkeys - band of choice for world leaders.(PEOPLE)
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- Sunday Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2007
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Byline: Barry Egan
WHO does An Taoiseach listen to in the morning? The Bee Gees, terrifyingly. Gordon Brown, it appears, has more street-cred in his musical tastes.
The British Prime Minister-in-waiting claimed in an interview with New Woman magazine that he listened to the Arctic Monkeys every day: "They really wake you up in the morning".
Mystifyingly, in a subsequent interview, Gordon was unable to name any of their songs. Cheeky monkey.
(To his credit, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his speech at the 2006 Labour Party Conference quipped that he was "more interested in the future of the Arctic Circle than the future of the ...