Alex Turner Alex Turner Alexander David Turner (born 6 January 1986) is an English musician, singer, songwriter 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. Turner has also recorded with his side-project The Last Shadow Puppets and as a solo artist. Raised in High Green, a suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Turner is the only child of two teachers. When he was sixteen, he and three friends formed Arctic Monkeys. Their debut album, "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" (2006), became
Nick Cook (writer) Nick Cook (writer) Nicholas Julian Cook is a consultant to companies in the defence industry on the issue of climate change. He is a British former aviation journalist as well as the author of fiction and non-fiction works. In the 1990s, Cook was the aviation editor of "Jane's Defence Weekly", the international defence journal. He was an aerospace consultant and contributor to the journal from 2002 to 2008. He won four Journalism Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in the Defence, Business, Technology, and Propulsion categories. "The Hunt For Zero Point", published by Century Random House in the UK in