Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Arctic Monkeys turned John Cooper Clarke’s poem “I Wanna Be Yours” into a song. It was already a popular wedding poem before that, but the song brought it to a new level, recently passing 2 billion streams on Spotify.
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0:00 Converting a poem into a song
0:19 The most streamed Arctic Monkeys song
0:34 Origins
1:15 School days
1:32 Working at The Boardwalk
1:55 An ugly, angular demo
2:22 James Ford’s suggestion to make it a ballad
2:48 Lyrics
3:12 Cannot get more down-to-earth than a vacuum cleaner
3:20 Changes in Arctic Monkeys’ version
4:35 From a semi-comedic piece to a love song
4:52 An unusual chord progression
5:03 ToneGym
5:41 A version released in 1982
6:00 A major influence on Alex Turner’s lyrics
6:29 “A Choice of Three” - A poem by Alex Turner
7:07 Sticking with the name “Arctic Monkeys”
7:40 A previous collaboration in 2007
8:00 TikTok bringing a 2nd life to songs
9:20 The most popular British poem
9:40 Years of pig-headed bloody-mindedness
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