Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner has been named the coolest man on the planet in NME's yearly poll on the subject, knocking last year's joint winner, one Pete Doherty, from the top spot. The Babyshambles frontman has fallen to sixth place, and Carl Barat, who shared that top spot with him last year, is now at number nine.
NME's Alex Needham said: "Featuring both elder statesmen and thrusting young turks, the NME Cool List is the one every musician wants to be on. Last year Pete Doherty and Carl Barat were joint Number One and 2005's list looks set to stir up even more controversy."
I want to make some amusing pun about how Turner is, or ought to be, definitively cool, given his Arctic origins, but I can't think of a good one. Gutting.