Matty Healy
A paperback copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road gave Matty Healy's band its name. Scribbles inside the book were dated "the 1st of June, The 1975", and in 2012 the group settled on that as its title. Healy was born Matthew Timothy Healy on the 8th of April 1989. He became an English singer-songwriter and record producer, and the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the 1975.
Rolling Stone called him a spokesperson for the millennial generation. Slant Magazine called him an expert provocateur. Both labels stuck because he handed critics so much to work with: confessional lyrics, a stage show staged as performance art, and opinions delivered with almost no filter.
Why did every major record label turn his band away before an independent label signed it? How does a songwriter turn a diary into pop songs that top the charts? And what happens when a man who says whatever is on his mind spends a decade in front of an online audience?
Hendon in north London is where Healy was born, the son of the actors Tim Healy and Denise Welch. Both parents are of Irish descent, and they divorced in 2012. His maternal grandfather was a drag queen, and his younger brother, Louis, is an actor. Healy lived in Melbourne from the age of two to four. He spent most of his early years on a cattle farm in Hedley on the Hill, Northumberland. The family moved to Alderley Edge in Cheshire when he was nine.
Coronation Street, Byker Grove and Waterloo Road all gave him work as an extra, because his parents were acting in them. He had no interest in acting himself. His mother became a celebrity figure while he was in his teens.
Brian Johnson of AC/DC became Healy's godfather through his father's circle of musician friends. That circle also included Rick Wakeman of Yes, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits and Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra. Peter Hook of Joy Division and New Order lived nearby. The screenwriter Ian La Frenais, his mother's godfather, introduced him to Ringo Starr. His parents also played him soul and Motown records. The first guitar he ever held had been used by Dire Straits to record "Romeo and Juliet". He later said this closeness to musicians meant that "being a rock star was part of my reality."
At five, Healy got his first drum kit. He was a quiet child with recurring vivid nightmares, and by seven he had started karate, eventually earning a black belt. For the first twelve years of his life he was an only child. He remembers that time as full of video games, Michael Jackson videos, and singing and dancing to himself.
The Groucho Club in London was a regular place to sleep, and he has recalled dozing in its bar many times. He describes that party-house childhood as exciting rather than distressing. His parents both struggled with alcohol, and his mother used cocaine to self-medicate during periods of acute depression, including after giving birth.
Lady Barn House School came first, then King's School in Macclesfield, which expelled him for starting a fight club. At 12 he won a talent contest at King's, performing songs by the La's and Oasis. He told a local newspaper that he hoped to be a pop singer when he grew up. He then moved to the local comprehensive, Wilmslow High School, and left with GCSEs in Music and English. Music college lasted three months before he dropped out, though the Academy of Contemporary Music lists him as a 2007-2008 alumnus with a Vocals diploma. Years later he called school a tedious imposition that got in the way of his being a pop star.
Wilmslow High was also where he met and befriended the classmates who would become his bandmates.
Adam Hann, a pupil at Wilmslow High, recruited a 13-year-old Healy in 2002 to drum in a band he was forming with Ross MacDonald. The planned lead singer dropped out after one rehearsal, so Healy took over the vocals as well. George Daniel later arrived and took the drum stool. Daniel remembered Healy as the most outwardly passionate person in school, both endearing and intimidating.
Punk and emo covers filled their early days, played in the school music hall and at Healy's house. Their first show, for 200 people, came through the council-run Macclesfield Youth Bands.
Manchester kept the band together after school. Healy persuaded his bandmates to attend universities there. He took short-lived jobs at FatFace, at Caffè Nero as a barista, and as a delivery boy for a Chinese restaurant. His mother worried about his future, while his father believed in him unquestioningly.
Talkhouse, the Slowdown, Bigsleep and Drive Like I Do were all names the band tried around Greater Manchester before the final choice.
Every major label rejected them. Executives were baffled by a group that jumped between genres. Healy answered that the band creates the way it consumes, and that his generation did not want to belong to another time.
Jamie Oborne, the band's manager for years, then started his own independent label, Dirty Hit. He signed the band for 20 pounds. Four extended plays followed across 2012 and 2013: Facedown, Sex, Music for Cars and IV.
Zane Lowe, then at the BBC, played Facedown on the radio in late 2012, and "Sex" and "Chocolate" followed on the airwaves. The debut album, The 1975, arrived in 2013. Healy said it was inspired by John Hughes and meant to be almost a soundtrack to teenage years. Michael Hann of The Guardian wrote that the best of its writing was fabulous, and worked better at length. It reached number one on the UK chart. The band sold out three nights at Brixton Academy in London, supported the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park and played the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
The second album carried a title of record length: I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It. Released in 2016, it topped both the UK chart and the Billboard 200, with 108,000 equivalent units sold. It became the longest album title ever to reach number one on that US chart. NME hailed Healy as "Britain's Greatest New Popstar" after the band's Glastonbury set that year. The record earned Grammy and Brit Award nominations and a Mercury Prize shortlisting.
A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships took the band to a Mercury Prize nomination and won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year. Notes on a Conditional Form followed in 2020, and both reached number one in the UK. At the 2020 NME Awards the band collected Band of the Decade, Best British Band and the Innovator Award.
In 2022, Healy wrote and produced the fifth album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language, with Daniel and Jack Antonoff. It gave the band a fifth consecutive UK number one, and also topped the charts in Scotland, Ireland and Australia. In the US it debuted at number 7 on the Billboard 200. At the 2023 Brit Awards he won British Rock/Alternative Act.
In August 2023, the band headlined Reading and Leeds festivals for the third time, with a tenth-anniversary performance of their debut album.
Typewriters sit beside pen and paper in Healy's writing routine, which he values for the commitment that goes with the ceremony of writing. NPR noted that he has long treated writing songs for the 1975 as his diary. Healy himself once called his work curating his life through music, and said he used to think of himself as a beat poet.
The diary is not always comfortable. "Chocolate" is about marijuana, and "UGH!" is about cocaine. "It's Not Living (If It's Not with You)" deals with his heroin addiction and recovery. "Lostmyhead" and "Ballad of Me and My Brain" were written about his mental state.
In late 2017, Healy spent seven weeks at an in-patient rehabilitation clinic in Barbados, after an intervention by his bandmates. He has also had trouble with cocaine and benzodiazepines. He says he does not want to fetishize drug use, calling it dull and dangerous. The thought of being to young people what Burroughs was to him as a teenager makes him feel ill.
George Daniel is the other half of the process. Healy calls their partnership symbiotic, with a shared musical vocabulary that works even when they work remotely. Daniel describes himself as the primary producer and Healy as the primary songwriter.
His first concert was Michael Jackson's HIStory show at Wembley Arena in 1996, which Healy has called one of the most important experiences of his life. The Streets made him realise he would start a band. LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends" is his forever song, and he has tried to match it technically and emotionally throughout his career. The Blue Nile is his favourite band of all time.
The 1980s pull at him because pop stars then were not so encumbered with self-awareness. For the debut album the band tried to capture the apocalyptic sense of being a teenager found in a John Hughes film. On the page, he cites Joan Didion, Seamus Heaney and Arthur Rimbaud, whom he calls dense and revolutionary. He says stand-up comedy is the biggest influence on his songwriting.
In 2020, Healy recorded a podcast series interviewing his musical heroes. His guests included Stevie Nicks, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Kim Gordon, Mike Kinsella, Conor Oberst and Bobby Gillespie.
The Guardian praised his lyrical frankness. It said he wrote not about the party but about the fallout from it, and that he uses half-real, half-invented dialogue to interrogate himself. Consequence called him rock's poet laureate of heartbreak, growing up, and messing up. The New York Times singled out his writing on consumption, whether of drugs, culture or goods.
"Love It If We Made It" is the song most often called his best. Its lyrics are stitched from tabloid headlines. They touch on police brutality, the death of Alan Kurdi during the refugee crisis in Europe, and Colin Kaepernick kneeling in protest. They also quote Donald Trump verbatim, and refer to the death of the rapper Lil Peep, post-truth politics and information overload. Healy described it as a montage for the times that will not change the times and offers no solution.
The lyrics earned him the Best Contemporary Song award at the 2019 Ivor Novello Awards, where he was also named Songwriter of the Year.
A bottle of red wine and a flask are regular props at a Healy concert, where he smokes and drinks as part of the act. He has said the showman in him takes over on stage. He compares his approach to Jim Morrison's, but adds: "I know that you know that I know that this isn't real." Billboard called him a rock star for a generation too clued-in to believe in rock stars. Vox described his persona as an ironic performance of fame and authenticity in the social media age.
Healy describes his private self as soft and quiet. He has acknowledged that his meta-layered approach to performing creates public misconceptions about him.
Rolling Stone noted that he is as likely to appear in an oversize parka and tulle skirt as shirtless in skinny jeans. Early in his career he wore vintage shirts and skirts on tour and changed hairstyles often. He later called that period an identity crisis, and his style "sexually confused Edward Scissorhands". Media outlets dubbed him a heartthrob and sex symbol, a role Stereogum said he actively subverts.
Healy has a tenor range with a rasp that he attributes to cigarette smoking. Pitchfork called him one of the best and most elastic vocal performers of his generation. The New Yorker described a shape-shifting voice that croons, wails, screams and murmurs, shading each delivery with a different persona.
The At Their Very Best tour of 2022 and 2023 pushed the idea furthest. Healy wrote and directed it, and the stage held a life-size house. The evening split into two acts with a narrative interlude, the first being a show and the second a concert. Reviews in Rolling Stone, NME, The Observer, The Telegraph, Evening Standard and Metro were five-star. The Observer called it part performance art, part stage play, part Charlie Kaufman movie about a rock star in crisis.
Healy explained that the show was about masculinity and fame. He said it follows a single man who has spent a year alone on the internet and gone a bit mad. It asks what is real and what is sincere.
The actions inside the show were stark. He ate a raw steak, depicted masturbation and delivered 20 press-ups in immediate succession. In the US leg he got a tattoo on stage that read "iM a MaN". During "Robbers" he invited men and women in the audience to kiss him, and once he sucked a fan's thumb.
Clips went viral on TikTok and other platforms, and some outlets labelled him a sleazeball or a sensitive dirtbag. Rolling Stone argued that, seen in isolation on social media, the nuance of his subversive take on masculinity disappeared. The Guardian said the moments sparked conversations in 2022 about consent, fantasy and art, and noted that Healy asked for fans' permission first.
Dubai in August 2019 banned Healy after he displayed a pride flag and kissed a male fan on stage, protesting the country's anti-LGBT laws. The act was punishable by ten years in prison. Looking back, he said he felt pretty irresponsible but ultimately dismissed the worry.
In 2018 he and his bandmates made a donation to an LGBTQ community centre in London that The Guardian called significant. In June 2019 he won Ally of the Year at the Diva Awards. He appeared on the cover of Attitude's Activists and Allies issue in 2020, and performed at the eighth annual Ally Coalition benefit for LGBTQ youth in December 2022.
The Good Vibes Festival in Malaysia was the next flashpoint, in 2023. Healy criticised the country's anti-LGBT laws and kissed bandmate Ross MacDonald on stage. Authorities forced the band to end the set early, and the band was briefly imprisoned and banned from the country. The organisers cancelled the rest of the three-day festival on government orders, citing his conduct and remarks as against local values. They later sued the band in the High Court for breach of contract, seeking £1.9 million in damages.
The protest drew both criticism and praise. At a concert in Dallas, Healy argued that artists who claim to uphold liberal virtues should be judged by the danger they face, not the rewards they collect. Peter Tatchell wrote in The Guardian that the criticism deflected attention from the Kuala Lumpur regime's homophobia, and that queer rights are a universal human right, not a western one. Healy also called the anti-transgender laws of Mississippi "bullshit" during his 2023 Still... At Their Very Best tour.
In 2020, Healy invited Greta Thunberg to record a speech about climate change for a 1975 track. The Conservative MP David Davies accused him of hypocrisy over his touring schedule. Healy replied that insisting nobody speak up until they are fully carbon neutral is an illogical way to think about the problem.
A tree was planted for every ticket sold on the Music for Cars tour. The band uses an eco-management company on the road, with sustainable crew catering and no plastic. Four shows at London's O2 Arena in 2024 are meant to be the world's first carbon-removed events. The plan is to pull the carbon dioxide out of the air, plant trees and spread volcanic rock on farmland.
In 2018, Healy apologised for saying misogyny had faded from rock and roll because its vocabulary had been weeded out. He later called his remark ignorant and misinformed. At the 2019 Brit Awards he used the band's acceptance speech to criticise misogyny in the music industry, quoting the journalist Laura Snapes. That year he also denounced Alabama's anti-abortion laws during a concert in the state, and in 2020 he pledged to play only festivals with gender-balanced lineups. He has also warned that the right is more successful than the left at attracting young men.
Healy calls himself liberal and a traditional progressive, and "definitely on the left". By 2022 he had grown suspicious of woke-ism as a way to improve things. In 2017 he encouraged voting Labour, but in 2019 he said he was disillusioned and trusted neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Boris Johnson. In Denmark in 2023 he named George Carlin, Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce as heroes, and said that if the left loses its ability to shock, it leaves too much space for the right. He spoke in support of Scottish independence while performing in Scotland that year.
Since 2017, "Loving Someone" has carried changing dedications. On stage it has honoured the victims of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, and expressed solidarity with Black, Muslim and gay Americans after the 2016 US election. It has also decried Brexit and been dedicated to the people of Manchester and London after the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.
Truman Black was the name Healy used on Facebook as a teenager, so that fans of his parents could not message him. He later used it as his handle on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr. It also appears on two later releases, "And Then the Sand We Sink In" in 2023 and "Loads of Crisps" in 2024. The Times called him the first, and last, great frontman of the social media era.
An exchange in 2014 shows how fast things could turn. After tweeting about ISIS and his non-religious, humanist perspective, he was challenged by a nineteen-year-old Muslim woman who ran a Harry Styles fan account. Healy said he resented being educated on religion by a Harry Styles fan account. Asked about the fallout in 2015, he admitted he was not as bright or progressive as he would like to be. He is a patron of Humanists UK. By 2018 he said he had softened toward the culture of religion, which he distinguished from scripture and dogma.
Twitter ended for him in 2020. After the murder of George Floyd, he tweeted that anyone who believes all lives matter must stop facilitating the end of Black ones, and he linked the song "Love It If We Made It". Critics said the tweet was self-promotional. Healy apologised and deactivated his account, saying he no longer wanted to take part in the culture war.
Instagram stayed open. NME praised his sensei-like mastery of shitposting, and he partnered with Amnesty International on online petitions. Jia Tolentino of The New Yorker saw him mocking both himself and the fans obsessed with his morality. She called the result a post-woke rock star, switching unpredictably between tenderness and trollishness. In 2020 he said he planned to stop giving interviews, a shift from his reputation as an unusually candid subject. The Guardian's Michael Hann once said Healy was a horror to handle for managers and publicists, and fascinating to transcribe.
January 2023 brought a viral video of him singing "Love It If We Made It". On the lyric "Thank you, Kanye, very cool", he marched on the spot and raised his left hand. Viewers debated whether the gesture was meant as a Nazi salute. Two months earlier, in November 2022, he had denounced West's antisemitic remarks and said grief and mental health problems did not excuse them.
The Adam Friedland Show, a leftist irony podcast, hosted him in February 2023. He agreed partly to provoke a reaction from his fanbase. Co-hosts Adam Friedland and Nick Mullen joked about the origin of Ice Spice's stage name and ancestry, and those comments were later widely and wrongly attributed to Healy. Ice Spice would later recall that he apologised to her several times and that they remain on good terms. Healy also joked on the show about a pornographic website. Friedland later clarified that he alone mentioned the site, and did not know whether Healy had ever visited it.
Talking to Tolentino in March 2023, Healy described the controversy as people getting close to a bad thing to show how good they are. He admitted to oppositional behaviour and exaggeration of himself over the previous 18 months. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times called the public response an example of context collapse.
At a concert in Adelaide in April 2023, he told the crowd that his era of being a difficult figure was ending, and that he could no longer perform off the stage. Six months later, at the Hollywood Bowl in October 2023, he went further. He said he had performed exaggerated versions of himself in a misguided attempt to fill the role of a 21st-century rock star. He apologised to those his actions had hurt and pledged to do better.
Billie Eilish has said that a 1975 concert was the second show she ever attended. She credits Healy with changing a great deal about who she is and how she writes music. The Chicago Tribune called him one of the younger generation's most influential artistic leaders.
Halsey was influenced by his dialogue-heavy, descriptive lyrics. Lewis Capaldi envies his ability to write funny lyrics and admires his self-awareness. Sam Fender won a singing competition at 16 with Healy on the judging panel, and he has since said he fanboys hard when he sees him. Robbie Williams called the current music scene boring but singled out Healy as the only commercially viable pop-rock star willing to be something other than beige.
Stevie Nicks has described the lyrics to "She's American" as poetry. Brian Eno told Healy that "Love It If We Made It" was the kind of political song he wished he could write. Lorde said "Somebody Else" really influenced her album Melodrama, shaping its tones, colours and emotions. Shawn Mendes called Healy the best frontman he has seen, and said the band's third album inspired his single "If I Can't Have You". Michelle Zauner, a longtime fan, calls him the perfect frontman.
Mick Jagger, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles, Hayley Williams, Phoebe Bridgers, Charli XCX, Ice Spice, Baby Queen and Sabrina Carpenter are known admirers.
Healywave is the name NME gave to the sound spreading from the 1975 through indie pop. The Big Issue described it as a dreamified take on eighties pop-rock, built on a palm-muted guitar line over shimmering synths. NME placed Pale Waves, Fickle Friends and the Aces among its acts.
No Rome, Beabadoobee, the Japanese House and Heather Baron-Gracie are among the artists he has mentored. He co-produced early work for several of them, and Beabadoobee says he has a way of finding a sentence that really hits you. In 2021, Healy and Daniel produced her EP Our Extended Play. Two tracks Healy wrote, "Pictures of Us" and "You're Here That's the Thing", appear on her album Beatopia from 2022.
He has also written for others. "Sleep Tight" was released by Holly Humberstone in April 2022, and he co-wrote an unreleased song with Lewis Capaldi. He worked with Taylor Swift on material for her 2022 album Midnights. In 2024 he is credited as co-writer and vocalist on a Charli XCX song, and for additional production on Coldplay's "The Karate Kid".
Songs have been named after him. In 2021, the Essex singer Georgia Twinn released a single called "Matty Healy", which Clash described as leaning on glossy Healywave vibes. In 2023, the Nashville-based singer Knox released "Not The 1975", inspired by a woman who answered his claim to be a musician with "That's cool but you're not Matty Healy." A year later, the Los Angeles singer Lina Cooper put out another single called "Matty Healy".
Since September 2023, Healy has been in a relationship with the American model and musician Gabbriette. They got engaged in May 2024.
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Common questions
Where did the name the 1975 come from?
Healy said the name came from scribbles in his copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, which were dated "the 1st of June, The 1975". The band settled on it in 2012 after trying names such as Talkhouse, the Slowdown, Bigsleep and Drive Like I Do.
How did the band get signed?
Every major label rejected them, confused by their genre-hopping approach. Their longtime manager Jamie Oborne started the independent label Dirty Hit and signed them for 20 pounds.
Which song is considered Healy's best songwriting?
Many point to "Love It If We Made It", which is built from tabloid headlines about politics and social events. It earned him Best Contemporary Song and Songwriter of the Year at the 2019 Ivor Novello Awards.
What happened at the Good Vibes Festival in Malaysia?
In 2023, Healy criticised Malaysia's anti-LGBT laws and kissed bandmate Ross MacDonald on stage. The band was forced to end its set, was briefly imprisoned and was banned from the country, and the festival was cancelled on government orders.
What is Healywave?
It is a term used by NME for the indie pop sound influenced by Healy and the 1975. The magazine placed Pale Waves, Fickle Friends and the Aces among its acts.
Who is Truman Black?
Truman Black is a pseudonym Healy first used as a teenager on Facebook so fans of his parents could not message him. He later used it as his social media handle and for releases in 2023 and 2024.
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- 129NewsThe 1975's Matty Healy Is Still Trying to Be Funny, SincerelyJoe Coscarelli — 2022-09-08
- 130NewsSpirit of the times: Life, dogs, a new 1975 album. Matty Healy takes it onWood, Mikael — 22 May 2020
- 131The 1975's Matty Healy Negotiates With The WorldDavid Greene et al. — 29 November 2018
- 132The 1975's Matty Healy Dissects Every Song on A Brief Inquiry Into Online RelationshipsSam Sodomsky — 27 November 2018
- 134Love Songs of a DirtbagAnn Powers — 2022-10-14
- 135NewsThe 1975's Matty Healy: 'I'm not an avocado – not everyone thinks I'm amazing'Dorian Lynskey — 16 May 2020
- 136The 1975's Matty Healy dissects story behind 'It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)'Sam Moore — 2018-11-27
- 139The 1975's Cocaine Song 'UGH' Is Proudly Ostentatious – Track ReviewRhian Daly — 2015-12-11
- 140NewsThe 1975, Brixton Academy: singer implores audience to switch off their phonesAmy Blumsom — 2016-03-06
- 141NewsEpisode 190: The 197512 August 2020
- 143The 1975's Matty Healy: The Full Interview With Our 'Album Of The Year' BandDan Stubbs — 2016-11-29
- 144MagazineThe 1975's Matt Healy: 'I've Never Let Anything Stop Me From Getting Where I'm Going'Nick Duerden — 2016-02-19
- 146NewsThe 1975 review – a tale of two halves packed with raw meat and talentAlim Kheraj — 2023-01-09
- 147The 1975's 'Notes on a Conditional Form' is a Meandering Search for MeaningPoppy Reid — 2020-05-22
- 149'I feel I've been a bit irresponsible': The 1975 deliver wine-drunk rambles and catharsis in AucklandLyric Waiwiri-Smith — 2023-04-21
- 150The 1975's Matty Healy: 'This is gonna be one of my last interviews'Douglas Greenwood — 2020-05-18
- 151Sleazeballs are hot againRebecca Jennings — 2023-01-04
- 152The 1975's Matty Healy says he's trying something he hasn't done before: being earnestVivian Rashotte — 2023-02-02
- 155NewsThe 1975 review – Matty Healy and co don their full meta jacketsDorian Lynskey — 2023-01-14
- 156Why is TikTok so obsessed with The 1975?2022-11-30
- 157Creepy behavior or pop performance? 1975's Matty Healy reignites debate about onstage kissingAlaina Demopoulos — 7 December 2022
- 158The 1975's Matty Healy Is Kissing Fans on Stage AgainPaper — 27 November 2022
- 159MagazineFirst Raw Meat And Now a Tattoo: The 1975's Matt Healy Concert Antics ContinueTomás Mier — 2022-12-19
- 160MagazineMatty Healy Sucks on a Fan's Thumb During The 1975 ConcertStarr Bowenbank — 9 January 2023
- 161Thumb sucking to eating raw steak: The 1975 at the Brighton CentreLyra Christie — 2023-01-15
- 163News102.7 KIIS FM on TikTok
- 164NewsInterview: Halsey All Things Go31 October 2014
- 165MagazineArt-Pop Singer Halsey on Being Bipolar, Bisexual and an 'Inconvenient Woman'Chris Martins — 2015-08-21
- 167Interview: Sam Fender on his debut album 'Hypersonic Missiles'.Shahlin Graves — 2019-09-13
- 169Holly Humberstone Scarlett, Paint My Bedroom Black, Matty Healy12 October 2023
- 171MagazineLiner 'Notes': The 1975's Matty Healy Talks Releasing an Opus Under QuarantineAndrew Unterberger — 2020-05-14
- 174Shawn Mendes' New Track Was Inspired By The 19752019-05-03
- 175NewsThe 1975 get number one UK album with self titled debut2013-09-09
- 176'We're the best lyricists': Matty Healy and Phoebe Bridgers in conversationDazed — 2022-10-20
- 177Baby Queen: sharp, satirical and infectious bangers from one of pop's most essential new voicesRhian Daly — 2020-09-02
- 178Two tribes: Is it high time for the return of the tribal pop rivalry?Malcolm Jack — 2018-08-20
- 179Get to know Healywave – the scene indebted to The 1975's signature soundTom Connick — 2018-09-21
- 180The 1975 and Pale Waves: Matty Healy introduces your favourite new pop bandDan Stubbs — 2017-10-20
- 182beabadoobee: "Matty Healy always gives me really good advice"Nick Reilly — 2022-09-27
- 183Georgia Twinn's 'Matty Healy' Is A Self-Confessed "Breakup Banger"Robin Murray — 2021-04-16
- 184Knox Opens Up About His Debut EP, "How To Lose A Girl in 7 Songs"Dom Vigil — 2023-02-17
- 185Nashville's very own, Knox, wants you to know he's no Matty Healy in new song "Not The 1975"Shauna Hilferty — 2023-07-20
- 186Lina Cooper shares a dream with "Matty Healy"Tayo Odutola — 2024-03-08
- 187NewsThe 1975's Matty Healy on cancel culture and why he previously quit TwitterAndrew Trendell — 17 October 2022
- 189The 1975's Matt Healy will 'send nudes' if fans vote LabourEmma Powell — 2017-06-08
- 192The 1975 pay tribute to victims of Orlando shooting at US gigRhian Daly — 15 June 2016
- 193Watch: Matty Healy's 'Loving Someone' speech for America.Shahlin Graves — 11 November 2016
- 194The 1975's Matty Healy makes emotional speech on Trump and Brexit as they play first night at The O2Andrew Trendell — 16 December 2016
- 195MagazineBunbury Festival 2017: The 1975 Pay Tribute to Manchester, Muse, Wiz Khalifa & Bassnectar Rock the RiverGil Kaufman — 5 June 2017
- 196NewsThe 1975 back new centre for London's LGBTQ+ communityVanessa Thorpe — 2018-06-09
- 199NewsThe 1975's Matt Healy protests against Dubai anti-gay laws with kiss2019-08-15
- 201The 1975's Matty Healy says he "felt pretty irresponsible" about Dubai fan incidentRhian Daly — 2020-05-10
- 202The 1975's Matty Healy gives speech about Malaysia LGBTQ+ controversyNick Reilly — 2023-10-10
- 204MagazineMatty Healy Says The 1975 Is Banned From Kuala Lumpur After Onstage KissRania Aniftos — 21 July 2023
- 205Matty Healy: 1975 show ended in Malaysia after singer attacks anti-LGBT lawsMatt Murphy — 22 July 2023
- 206MagazineThe 1975's Set at Malaysia Festival Cut Short as Matty Healy Slams Anti-LGBTQ LawsDaniel Kreps — 21 July 2023
- 207NewsMalaysia Halts Music Festival After Kiss Between Bandmates Onstage2023-07-22
- 208NewsMalaysian festival halted after Matty Healy criticises anti-LGBTQ+ lawsTobi Thomas — 2023-07-22
- 209NewsMalaysia's gay community fears backlash after Matty Healy's outburstRebecca Ratcliffe — 2023-07-24
- 210NewsMatty Healy spoke for us on stage in Malaysia2023-08-01
- 211NewsMatty Healy is not a 'white saviour' for showing solidarity with Malaysia's LGBTQ+ peoplePeter Tatchell — 2023-07-25
- 212NewsThe 1975 sued over Malaysia concert with Matty Healy kissAnnabelle Liang — 31 July 2024
- 213The 1975 to stage world's first "carbon-removed" event at The O2 in LondonLiberty Dunworth — 2023-09-07
- 214The 1975 to stage world's first 'carbon-removed' gig at the O2 ArenaTom Bawden — 2023-09-05
- 215Why Matty Healy got it so wrong about rock, hip hop, drugs and misogynyRoisin O'Connor — 6 December 2018
- 216NewsMusic industry sexism: will Matt Healy's Brits moment spark change?Laura Snapes et al. — 22 February 2019
- 217NewsWatch The 1975's Matty Healy speak out against Alabama's anti-abortion laws during passionate speech on women's rightsElizabeth Aubrey — 18 May 2019
- 218NewsThe 1975 commit to playing only gender-balanced music festivalsBen Beaumont-Thomas et al. — 12 February 2020
- 219The 1975's Matty Healy pledges to only play festivals with gender balanced line-upsWill Richards — 2020-02-12
- 220MagazineCan true love exist anymore? The 1975's Matty Healy isn't sureHannah Ewens — 12 July 2022
- 223"I would go to jail for what I stand for" – The 1975's Matty Healy talks playing countries with anti-gay lawsWill Richards — 2019-08-23
- 225The 1975 'Notes on a Conditional Form' Review: A Sprawling, Sincere Ode to RockPaul Schrodt — 2020-05-23
- 226Every delicious fact we learned from Matty Healy's new 'In Conversation' podcastAli Shutler — 2020-05-06
- 227NewsThe 1975, O2 Arena review: the millennial Jim Morrison is back – and trying to save the worldAlice Vincent — 2020-02-22
- 228NewsI wish more of our pop stars were like unfiltered Matty HealyEd Potton — 2023-06-14
- 229The Cult of Matty Healy2023-01-04
- 230Let This Video of Matty Healy's Dance Moves Ruin Your LifeJael Goldfine
- 232The 1975's Matty Healy Has A Vintage T-Shirt Collection You Need to SeeGlenn Alderson — 2020-05-14
- 236Welcome to The 1975's Big Menswear Glow-Up2023-07-06
- 237NewsThe 1975: 'No one's asking you to inspire a revolution. But inspire something'Michael Hann — 15 November 2015
- 238NewsThe 1975's Matty Healy on cancel culture, drugs and his 'punk' mum Denise WelchJonathan Dean — 9 June 2023
- 239NewsThe 1975's Matty Healy Has A Lot To Say—But What Does It All Mean?5 December 2018
- 241Raw steaks, couch fondling and snogging – we unpack why the internet is going feral for Matty HealyCurious Ways — 8 December 2022
- 242The 1975's Matty Healy is back on social media, with a mysterious website tooDan Harrison — 2023-06-11
- 243NewsMatty Healy on deleting Twitter: "I don't wanna be a pawn in the culture war"Tom Skinner — 10 August 2022
- 244MagazineThe 1975's Matty Healy Accused of Using Black Lives Matter to Promote His MusicKlaritza Rico — 29 May 2020
- 245The 1975's Matty Healy urges fans to demand justice for Gustavo GaticaNME — December 2020
- 246MagazineThe 1975: "I'd rather be a pretend supervillain than some pretend hero"14 October 2022
- 247MagazineHear the 1975 Call Out Trump, Kanye West on 'Love It If We Made It'Jon Blistein — 19 July 2018
- 248MagazineA state-of-the-planet address: every reference in The 1975's powerful 'Love It If We Made It' videoTom Connick — 16 October 2018
- 249MagazineDeconstructing The 1975's 'Love It If We Made It' lyrics10 July 2021
- 250NewsThe 1975 frontman Matty Healy appears to do Nazi salute on stage31 January 2023
- 251Taylor Swift is in her Matty Healy eraRebecca Jennings — 17 May 2023
- 253News1975's Matty Healy under fire for podcast mocking Scottish and Japanese peopleCraig Meighan — 11 February 2023
- 255NewsDemanding Taylor Swift dump Matty Healy? Fan culture is out of controlShaad D'Souza — 30 May 2023
- 257The Adam Friedland Show Podcast Ep. P1 Nick Mullen16 May 2023
- 259MagazineThe 1975's Matty Healy quits social media: "The era of me being a fucking arsehole is coming to an endTom Skinner — 12 April 2023
- 260Part 2Matty Healy — 13 June 2023
- 261Matty Healy Pledges to 'Do Better Moving Forward,' Apologizes for Controversial Comments During the 1975 ConcertThania Garcia — 2023-10-03
- 262MagazineThe Big Read – The 1975: Notes on an exceptional yearDan Stubbs — 14 December 2018
- 263MagazineThe 1975: "I just hope that my honesty is not seen as self-indulgent"Dan Stubbs — 22 May 2020
- 265NewsFKA twigs and The 1975's Matt Healy Spotted Together at RuPaul's DragCon UK19 January 2020
- 266MagazineFKA twigs and The 1975 Frontman Matty Healy Are Dating: Source13 February 2020
- 272Matty Healy And Gabbriette Make It NYFW Official8 September 2023
- 274The 1975's Matty Healy marries model Gabbriette Bechtel in Los AngelesRuth Comerford — 19 July 2026
- 277MagazineMatt Healy comes out as "aesthete," says he'll kiss beautiful men but won't have sex with themGraham Gremore — 6 December 2019
- 280MagazineMatty Healy: 'Art, sex, drugs, religion. It's just about losing yourself'18 February 2019
- 281NewsMatty Healy of the 1975: 'If you're still making art in your 30s you're either wadded or good – and I'm both'Alexis Petridis — 2 September 2022
- 282NewsThe 1975's Matty Healy says he had found relationships 'difficult' while in the band2 September 2022
- 284MagazineHow The 1975's Matty Healy Kicked Heroin and Took the Band to New HeightsDorian Lynskey — 2 August 2018
- 285MagazineMatty Healy: 'My whole fear was becoming a beacon of sobriety'4 September 2019
- 286The 1975's Matty Healy on 'Notes on a Conditional Form'12 May 2020
- 287MagazineThe Rebirth of the 197528 November 2018
- 290The 1975's Matty Healy shares ambient new solo track 'Loads Of Crisps'Damian Jones — 2024-03-29
- 291The 1975 join No Rome for his sultry new pop jam 'Narcissist'Samantha Maine — 2018-08-28
- 292Magazine20 Questions With Holly Humberstone: New EP, Working With Matty Healy & Being a Secret NerdJason Lipshutz — 2021-11-18
- 294Beabadoobee – 'Beatopia' review: a weightless journey through a dreamlike worldHollie Geraghty — 2022-07-14
- 296The 1975's Matty Healy has co-directed a new video for rapper Just BancoSam Moore — 2018-06-08
- 297MagazineWatch the 1975's Immersive 'Frail State of Mind' VideoDaniel Kreps — 2019-11-21
- 299The 1975 'Happiness' by Samuel Bradley VideosPromonews
- 300MagazineBrit Awards 2017: See the Full Winners List
- 301Brit Awards 2019: Full list of winnersBBC — 20 February 2019
- 302Mo Gilligan returning to host 2023 BRIT AwardsWill Richards — 10 January 2023
- 303NewsMercury Prize 2016: The nominees4 August 2016