Arctic Monkeys make the fastest-selling debut ever

23 January 2006: Number 48 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicIt's January 2006. Jonny Bradshaw, a product manager at Domino Records, is on holiday when his boss, Laurence Bell, gives him a call. "I'm putting the Arctic Monkeys record out a week early," Laurence says. Bradshaw laughs at the memory. "I remember going: 'Oh shit!'" He soon realised that his absence didn't matter. "Nothing we could do as a label could make a difference to this band. There was no marketin...

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