The Television Personalities are an English group with a varying line-up. The only constant member is singer–songwriter Dan Treacy, who uses the band as a vehicle for his music. Their first release (January 1978) was the single "14th Floor / Oxford Street W1". Their second release, the EP Where's Bill Grundy Now? features one of their best-known songs, "Part Time Punks". The Television Personalities' first album And Don't the Kids Just Love It was released in 1981.

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  • The Television Personalities are an English group with a varying line-up. The only constant member is singer–songwriter Dan Treacy, who uses the band as a vehicle for his music. Their first release (January 1978) was the single "14th Floor / Oxford Street W1". Their second release, the EP Where's Bill Grundy Now? features one of their best-known songs, "Part Time Punks". The Television Personalities' first album And Don't the Kids Just Love It was released in 1981. It set the template for their subsequent career: neo-psychedelia, an obsession with youth culture of the 1960s, a fey, slightly camp lyrical attitude, and the occasional classic pop song. Their second album Mummy Your Not Watching Me [sic] demonstrated increased psychedelic influences. Their third album, entitled They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles showed Treacy's sense of humor: the TVPs were never to have any major commercial success. The first three albums featured Treacy and schoolmate Ed Ball; Ball left the band to found The Times, but rejoined in 2004. The 1985 album The Painted Word was unexpectedly dark in content, reflecting Treacy's despair at Thatcherite Britain and his personal circumstances. Various line up changes prevented their next album (Privilege) from appearing until 1990. Their subsequent album Closer to God was a combination of fey sixties style pop and darker material, similar in tone to The Painted Word. The album Don't Cry Baby, It's Only a Movie was released in 1998. Since then Treacy has battled mental health problems, and his addictions to heroin, amphetamine and alcohol. He has been homeless on various occasions and was briefly arrested and imprisoned in 2003/2004. However, since his release, Treacy has attempted to get his life back together and in February 2006 a new TVPs album My Dark Places was released. Despite their relatively small independent sales the TVPs were very influential on British music in the 1980s, especially the so-called C86 generation and many of the bands on Creation Records. In an article in The Guardian on April 24, 2006, it was implied that Dan Treacy is in some way behind the Arctic Monkeys, although this is based on little more than a perceived similarity between their lyrical style and that of Treacy, and the fact that the lead singer of Arctic Monkeys, Alex Turner is mysteriously not credited with their songwriting.
  • Die Television Personalities (auch abgekürzt als TV Personalities) sind eine englische Band, die sich stilistisch zwischen Pop, Punk und Psychedelia bewegt.
  • Les Television Personalities sont un groupe de pop-rock anglais. Peu connus, ils font l'objet d'un véritable culte de quelques milliers de fans principalement au Royaume-Uni et en Allemagne. Ils sont en France totalement confidentiels, même si certains journalistes rocks français (Jean-Daniel Beauvallet des Inrockuptibles, par exemple) leur ont toujours adressé des critiques favorables. Nés dans le sillage de la vague punk en 1978 avec leur premier single 14th Floor, les TVP's sont dominés par la personnalité de leur chanteur et auteur-compositeur Dan Treacy. Songwriter de toute première force, il cisèle d'imparables mélodies (Smashing Time, Silly Girl, If I could write poetry... ) accompagnées de textes à l'ironie mélancolique, qu'il massacre par des arrangements approximatifs. Tout au long des années 1980, les TV Personalities régaleront leur poignée de fans d'albums dont chacun recèle deux ou trois réussites. La carrière des TV Personalities se poursuivra dans l'anonymat pendant les années 1990. Dan Treacy connaît un sérieux problème de dépendance à l'héroïne qui le conduit à la rue et à la prison pour cambriolage. Mais les TV Personalities effectuent leur retour en 2006 avec l'album My Dark Places.
  • Television Personalities är en brittisk post-punk-grupp med varierande medlemmar. Den ende konstanta medlemmen i bandet är singer/songwritern Dan Treacy. Bandet gjorde i juli 2007 en spelning i Sverige, vid indiepopfestivalen Rip It Up i Värmlandsbro. Året efter gjorde bandet även en spelning i Stockholm.
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    John Bennett
    Gerard Bennett
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  • The Television Personalities are an English group with a varying line-up. The only constant member is singer–songwriter Dan Treacy, who uses the band as a vehicle for his music. Their first release (January 1978) was the single "14th Floor / Oxford Street W1". Their second release, the EP Where's Bill Grundy Now? features one of their best-known songs, "Part Time Punks". The Television Personalities' first album And Don't the Kids Just Love It was released in 1981.
  • Die Television Personalities (auch abgekürzt als TV Personalities) sind eine englische Band, die sich stilistisch zwischen Pop, Punk und Psychedelia bewegt.
  • Les Television Personalities sont un groupe de pop-rock anglais. Peu connus, ils font l'objet d'un véritable culte de quelques milliers de fans principalement au Royaume-Uni et en Allemagne. Ils sont en France totalement confidentiels, même si certains journalistes rocks français (Jean-Daniel Beauvallet des Inrockuptibles, par exemple) leur ont toujours adressé des critiques favorables.
  • Television Personalities är en brittisk post-punk-grupp med varierande medlemmar. Den ende konstanta medlemmen i bandet är singer/songwritern Dan Treacy. Bandet gjorde i juli 2007 en spelning i Sverige, vid indiepopfestivalen Rip It Up i Värmlandsbro. Året efter gjorde bandet även en spelning i Stockholm.
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