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- Television_Personalities abstract "The Television Personalities are an English rock group led by singer–songwriter Dan Treacy (born 19 June 1960). The band's first release (January 1978) was the single \"14th Floor\"/\"Oxford Street W1\", while their second, 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 humour; the TVPs were never to have any major commercial success in the UK – although their albums sold respectably in Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands. The first three albums featured Treacy and schoolmate Ed Ball; Ball left the band to found The Times, but rejoined in 2004.The band were offered the support slot on Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour's 1984 UK solo dates, but were promptly dropped after reading out former Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett's home address.The 1984 album The Painted Word was unexpectedly dark in content, reflecting Treacy's despair at Thatcherite Britain and his personal circumstances.Various lineup 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.From 1998 to June 2004, Dan Treacy was incarcerated for shoplifting to feed his drug habit. He spent time aboard HM Prison ship Weare in Portland Harbour, Dorset, England. He has referred to the Weare as \"The Good Ship Lollipop\". The experience helped him put his life and career back on track.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 24 April 2006, it was implied that Dan Treacy was in some way behind the Arctic Monkeys, although this was 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 not credited with the band's songwriting.It was reported in October 2011 that Treacy was seriously ill after an operation to remove a blood clot from his brain.".
- Television_Personalities activeYearsStartYear "2004".
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- Television_Personalities associatedBand Teenage_Filmstars.
- Television_Personalities associatedBand The_Times_(band).
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- Television_Personalities genre Indie_pop.
- Television_Personalities genre New_wave_music.
- Television_Personalities genre Post-punk.
- Television_Personalities genre Psychedelia.
- Television_Personalities genre Punk_rock.
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- Television_Personalities recordLabel Fire_Records_(UK).
- Television_Personalities recordLabel Little_Teddy_Recordings.
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