Happy Birthday, Alex Turner.

Arctic Monkeys’ front-man Alex Turner turned 31 years old today. That guy is pure machismo. Below is some stuff you maybe didn’t know.

• Whatever People Say I am, That’s What I’m Not (2006) album was the fastest-selling debut album in U.K chart history.

• Arctic Monkeys have performed in Edmonton 3x (SONiC BOOM ’14, SONiC Session ’14, Rexall Place 2012 w The Black Keys)

• Alex credits The Strokes as a key influence.

• “Frontman Alex Turner wrote ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’ with his girlfriend, Johanna Bennett, who’s now married to King of Leon’s Matthew Followill. They wrote the song while playing a game on vacation in the Mediterranean.”

• Drake and Lil Wayne influenced R U Mine? “I like that thing they do where they talk about something backwards, so they talk about it but then say what it actually is on the next line.”

Arctic Monkeys have been spotted in their hometown of Sheffield, England and have confirmed work has began on an album for 2017.

Happy Birthday to rock hearththrob, Alex Turner. Wish you health and happiness.