Watch Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner Give Incredible Speech At Brit Awards 2014

The Brit Awards had plenty of highlights; David Bowie asking Kate Moss to pick up his award and urge Scotland against independence; Bastille making the sweetest speech ever; Pharrell wanting to be further away from James Corden than ever before. But the best moment of the night probably belonged to Alex Turner and his ceremony-closing speech for Arctic Monkeys after they picked up the British Album Of The Year gong for ‘AM’.

Whether rehearsed or completely off the cuff, it quickly had DIY and everybody else heaping the praise. Read the prose in full and watch below.

‘That rock and roll, eh? That rock and roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it’s always waiting there, just around the corner, ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock and roll, it seems like it’s faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there’s nothing you can do about it…’