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Newly flush with TV money, the Healys moved to Wilmslow, a posh Manchester suburb—“basically three square miles where Manchester United players live,” Healy said—and he was sent to an all-boys private school. “Because I hadn’t come from that culture, I was very aware of this hypermasculinity, and this desire for domination,” he told me. He started a fight club in a locker room, charging fifty pence for admission and splitting the money with the fighters. He was expelled and returned to the local public schools, where he met Daniel, MacDonald, and Hann. They were all thirteen, they hung out in the music wing, and they formed an emo band that cycled through a series of emo names: Me and You Versus Them, Forever Drawing Six, the Slowdown, Drive Like I Do. They went through puberty as a unit and developed their identities symbiotically. One day, they all did MDMA for the first time, lying on the floor in the Healys’ house, listening to music and feeling as if they had never truly heard it before.

Healy, an autodidact, didn’t go to college; he streamed lectures on YouTube. The three o

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Matty Healy

English singer-songwriter (born 1989)

Not to be confused with Matt Heafy.

Matthew Timothy Healy (born 8 April 1989) is an English singer-songwriter and record producer who is the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the pop rock band The 1975. He is recognised for his lyricism, musical eclecticism, provocative onstage persona characterised as performance art, and influence on indie pop music.

Born in London and raised largely in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge, Healy formed the 1975 in 2002 with his schoolmates at Wilmslow High School. After signing with independent record labelDirty Hit, the band released four extended plays before releasing their self-titled studio album in 2013. They followed it with I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (2016), A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (2018), Notes on a Conditional Form (2020) and Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2022). Each of their studio albums reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and charted on the Billboard 200, garnering critical praise a

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Fast Facts

Full Name:

Matthew Timothy Healy

Nickname:

Truman Black, Matty

Birth date:

April 8, 1989

Relationship Status:

In a relationship

Background

Matthew Timothy Healy was born on April 8, 1989, in Manchester, England, to actress Denise Welch and actor Tim Healy. When he was a child, his parents had frequent social interactions with actors and musicians. At the age of four, Healy began playing the drums with his father and acquired a taste for music. In 2012, his parents divorced, and his mother began dating Lincoln Townley, whom she later wed. With his younger brother Louis, he grew up in Newcastle and Cheshire. His brother currently plays music on YouTube, inspired by him. Healy attended Wilmslow High School, where he and his mates Ross MacDonald, Adam Hann, and George Daniel began jamming in 2004. They started by performing punk rock and pop covers before beginning to compose their songs at age 15.

Healy was their primary lyricist and was responsible for the band’s unique style and poignant lyrics. Under their manager Jamie Oborne, they performed