Key facts
- Also known as
- Drive Like I Do
- Origin
- Wilmslow , Cheshire , England
- Genres
- Pop rock alternative pop art pop synth-pop new wave indie rock
- Years active
- 2002–present
- Labels
- Dirty Hit Polydor Vagrant Interscope
- Members
- Adam Hann Matty Healy Ross MacDonald George Daniel
- Website
- the1975 .com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- the1975.com
- Image
- The 1975 (14712180536).jpg
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- inception
- 2002-00-00
- Commons category
- The 1975
- start of work period
- 2012-00-00
- social media followers
- 3480000
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The 1975 are an English pop rock band formed in Wilmslow, Cheshire in 2002. The band consists of Matty Healy (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, primary songwriter), Adam Hann (lead guitar), Ross MacDonald (bass) and George Daniel (drums, primary producer). The band's name was inspired by a page of scribblings found in Healy's preowned copy of On the Road by Jack Kerouac which was dated "1 June, The 1975".
The band members met in secondary school and first performed together as teenagers in 2002, before professionally releasing music in 2012 under the independent label Dirty Hit. From 2012 to 2013, they opened for several major acts and released a series of extended plays—Facedown, Sex, Music for Cars and IV—before releasing their UK chart-topping self-titled debut album (2013), which included the popular singles "Sex", "Chocolate" and "Robbers".