“He was a master of the cryptic instruction. He’d say, ‘This song, can you loosen its tie a little?’”: How The Strokes created the most influential rock song of the early 21st Century

Julian Casablancas in 2002.

“I just wanted to be one of The Strokes,” admitted Alex Turner on the Arctic Monkeys’ 2017 track Star Treatment.

Back in 2001, a 15-year-old Turner was far from the only one enamoured with one of the new millennium’s most exciting guitar bands — believed by many to have put New York City back on the rock 'n' roll map.