The Last Shadow Puppets: Biography

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• Discography
• Biography
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• Pete Doherty
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• Lee Hazlewood
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• Arctic Monkeys
• The Rascals

Genre:

Rock Music

Decades Active:

2000's

A Scott Walker and David Bowieinspired collaboration between the Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and the Rascals' Miles Kane, the Last Shadow Puppets began when Kane's previous band, the Little Flames, toured with the Arctic Monkeys in 2007. Already friends from prior gigs together, the pair started writing songs that spring, and headed into a French studio late that summer with producer/drummer James Ford. Additional recording, including strings courtesy of the London Metropolitan Orchestra and arranger Owen Pallett (of Final Fantasy), was completed that December. Early in 2008, the Last Shadow Puppets played a pair of shows in New York and announced that their debut single and album, both titled The Age of the Understatement, would arrive that spring on Domino Records.

- Heather Phares, All Music Guide