TELEVISION PERSONALITIES - Where's Bill Grundy Now? DIY
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Television Personalities
Happy Families/Posing At The Roundhouse
Part Time Punks/Where's Bill Grundy Now?
Kings Road Records : LYN 5976/7 (Matrix)
Here is a VERY GOOD copy of Television Personalities' classic second single release, on the Kings Road Record label, 'Where's Bill Grundy Now? EP'. The record dates from 1978. This is the second pressing version with white labels and no stamps on the labels. It is a genuine copy which I've had since it was released.
The Television Personalities is a British 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. The band's first release (January 1978) was the single "14th Floor / Oxford Street W1". It's second release, the EP Where's Bill Grundy Now? featured one of the bands 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 TVP's 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 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. 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.
The record is in VERY GOOD condition and plays well, with the usual surface noise and slight clicks, as you would expect. The DIY photocopied paper picture sleeve is in VERY GOOD condition with slight creasing and some minor ring wear. The sleeve has some blu-tac residue on the back from where it used to be on my teenage bedroom wall. There are two pencil marks on one of the labels, cueing up marks!
All records are well packaged and sent recorded delivery in the UK, and with adequate compensation if sent abroad, for my piece of mind.
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