Background
Healy was born in London, the son of actress Denise Welch and actor Tim Healy.
Healy was born in London, the son of actress Denise Welch and actor Tim Healy.
He left school at 16 and worked in call centres, cafés, and Chinese takeaways. His first job was "in a kitchen doing pots at a public". In 2001, Healy met his future bandmates — guitarist and keyboardist Adam Hann, drummer and backing vocalist George Daniel, and bassist and backing vocalist Ross MacDonald — at Wilmslow High School in Wilmslow, Cheshire.
He states that a "hippy council worker" was putting on gigs for teenagers at Macclesfield Senior Citizen Hall and Hann approached him and MacDonald about forming a band.
Healy originally played drums, but switched when George Daniel was added and the lead singer left to join another band. The 1975 released their debut self-titled album on 2 September 2013.
Six days later the album reached number one on the United Kingdom Albums Chart. The album had several singles including "Sex", "Girls", "Settle Down", "Robbers", and "Heart Out".
The album was recorded with the help of Arctic Monkeys producer Mike Crossey.
In an interview, Healy, who writes all the lyrics for the 1975"s songs, explains “on the there"s elements of emo and ambient music, which is what I was listening to from 15–20"
The 1975 released their second album, I Like lieutenant When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of lieutenant, on 26 February 2016 through Dirty Hit Records. Healy has a dog named Pip whom he says has been "next to me when I"ve written just about every lyric".