TV Personalities

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Melancholie²

(From left) Philip Treacy, Daphne Guiness, and Isabella Blow.

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Elefant Records

25th Anniversary [1989-2014]: 25 years with Elefant Records *Dan Treacy [TELEVISION PERSONALITIES]* #25Anniversary #Elefant25 #ElefantRecords

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Gina Davidson, Gillian Elam and Dan Treacy, 1981. This photo was taken in Chelsea whilst some students shot a promo film for the “Smashing Time” single, which remains lost in time. Gina Davidson with duffle bag, Gillian Elam, who was involved with the cassette label Bi-Joopiter Expression, and Dan Treacy, songwriting genius and founding member of seminal art-pop pioneers, Television Personalities. Treacy’s Whaam! Records released the Marine Girls’ LP, Beach Party, later reissued on Cherry Re...

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The story of Creation Records in quotes - NME

Alan McGee on the label's ethos: "It was me and Joe Foster’s idea to merge punk and psychedelia, because we loved the Television Personalities. The ideology of Dan Treacy, that’s where we got the Creation ethos from."