He has the helter-skelter intelligence of an autodidact, name-dropping Debord and Dostoevsky, and accidentally inventing words like “dissolvement.” His brain swerves between extremes of self-belief and self-doubt, so it’s hard to keep up with all the qualifications, revisions, digressions and apologies as he tries to crystallize what he means. The 1975: Photos From the Billboard Cover Shoot Because I knew that one more time and that’s it.” “The fact that I knew I was building on something that wasn’t destroying made me feel really strong. “People had started to lose respect for me, but not an irredeemable amount,” he says, running his hands through his scruffy, half-peroxided hair. The singer spent seven weeks at a rehab clinic in Barbados in November and December and has been clean since then. Healy says his habit was the first time a secret ever came between them. So I went downstairs and told George I should go to rehab.” Daniel is the band’s production whiz and Healy’s closest friend they live virtually next door to each other in east London. “I realized that was absolute fucking bullshit. If you want songs, we’re just going to have to get on with it.” The next morning, he woke up mortified. Healy winces and inhales a Marlboro Light as he paraphrases what he said: “Listen, everyone has to get onboard because I’m the fucking main deal.

Medicine the 1975 album cover