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George Daniel

For other people named George Daniel, seeGeorge Daniel (disambiguation).

George Bedford Danielis a British drummer, record producer, andelectronicmusician. He came to prominence as a member of the rock bandThe 1975,as part of which he released five albums that topped theUK Albums Chart.His songwriting and producing partnership with the band's vocalistMatty Healymade him the co-recipient ofmultiple awards and nominationsincluding twoIvor Novello Awardsand fourBrit Awards.He has also been co-nominated twice for theMercury Prizeand once for theGrammy Awards.He released his debut single, "Screen Cleaner", in August 2024.

George Daniel
Daniel performing in Dublin in 2023
Daniel performing in Dublin in 2023
Background information
Birth nameGeorge Bedford Daniel
BornBrussels,Belgium
OriginWilmslow,England
Occupations
  • Musician
  • record producer
Years active2002–present
LabelsDH2
Member ofThe 1975
Partner(s)Charli XCX(2022–present; engaged)

Charli XCXannounced her relationship with Daniel in May 2022 and their engagement in November 2023. He is the subject of her song "Talk Talk"and produced her tracks"In the City","Club Classics"and"Apple"."In the City "and" Apple "charted on theUK singles chartat numbers 41 and 8. He also co-producedthe Japanese House'sGood at FallingandIn the End It Always Does,which charted on the UK Albums Chart at numbers 64 and 29 respectively, and co-producedBeabadoobeeandPinkPantheress's "Tinkerbell Is Overrated", which has been cited as an inspiration byCoupdekat.

Life and career

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Early and personal life and the 1975

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George Bedford Daniel[1]was born inBrussels,Belgium, and grew up inSeattle,Washington, US.[2]He was first inspired by the airiness ofFleetwood Mac's works.[3]He later moved to England and enrolled atWilmslow High School.[4]In 2002, he joinedthe 1975as drummer, replacingMatty Healy,[5]who had been promoted to lead singer, replacing futureEditorskeyboardistElliott Williams.[6]At the time, the band madeemomusic and used the name Drive Like I Do.[7]Having takenmusic technologyatGCSE,Daniel left school at sixteen[3]and studiedelectronic musicat a Manchester college. While there, his tutors introduced him to works byAphex Twin,Luke Vibert,Squarepusher,andBoards of Canada,[7]and Daniel would regularly use the studio at college to work on the band's wares, even going so far as to submit 1975 content as coursework.[3]To keep the band together, Daniel and bandmates Adam Hann and Ross MacDonald went to university inManchester,during which time all four members worked as delivery drivers for a Chinese restaurant.[8]

By 2010, the band was being managed byJamie Oborne.After finding that labels were not interested, Oborne set upDirty Hit,and signed the band for£20.[9]On that label, the 1975 released fourextended plays (Facedownin August 2012,Sexin November 2012,Music for Carsin March 2013 andIVin May 2013),[10]theUK Albums Chart-topping albumsThe 1975(2013),I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It(2016),A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships(2018),Notes on a Conditional Form(2020) andBeing Funny in a Foreign Language(2022), and multiple singles including "Give Yourself a Try"and"Love It If We Made It".[11]Their second and third albums were nominated for theMercury Prize,[a]with the latter winning aBrit Award for British Album of the Yearin2019,[14]while "Give Yourself a Try" was nominated for aGrammy Award for Best Rock Songin 2020[15]and "Love It If We Made It" won anIvor Novello Awardfor Best Contemporary Song.[16]With Healy, Daniel was jointly nominated for Songwriter of the Year at the 2023 Ivor Novello Awards,[17]and with the 1975, Daniel is joint recipient of2017'sBrit Award for British Group,[18]2019'sGQBand of the Year award at theGQMen of the Year Awards[19]and Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year,[16]2020'sNMEBand Of The Decade Award, Best British Band andNMEInnovation Award at that year'sNMEawards,[20]and 2023'sBrit Award for British Rock/Alternative Act.[21]

In May 2016, Daniel broke his shoulder after slipping off their tour bus. He was temporarily replaced bythe Japanese House's drummer Freddy Sheed, whom he later congratulated for learning their entire set in less than 24 hours.[22]The band toured theirMusic for Carstour between 2018 and March 2020, when theCOVID-19 pandemicended it early.[23]Daniel spentlockdownpracticing hisdeejayingskills.[7]At the 2019GQAwards, he was photographed withCharli XCX,[19]who announced their relationship in May 2022;[24]her 2024 track "Talk Talk"was about an incident at the 2020NMEAwards in which XCX, who had been talking to Daniel online but had not yet met him in person, almost followed him into a toilet but stopped short of introducing herself.[20]Both XCX and the 1975 featured on "Spinning",a UK No. 94 single forNo Rome,[25]which they had worked on at that year'sSt Jerome's Laneway Festivalin 2020.[26]XCX announced their engagement in November 2023[27]in a selfie uploaded to her private Instagram account in which she flaunted a diamond ring. In subsequent since-deleted photos with Daniel uploaded to her public Instagram account,[20]XCX stated that the pair were "fucking for life".[28]The pair were subjected to rumours in January 2025 that they had married inBratislava.[19]

Daniel performing in Germany in 2019

The 1975's fifth album was delayed by the band hitting a wall as a result of Daniel's depression and Healy's breakup withFKA Twigs.[8]The band resumed touring in March 2022 and later mounted theAt Their Very BestandStill... At Their Very Besttours;[29]Daniel spent post-pandemic 1975 afterparties deejaying.[7]After a gig atFinsbury Park,[7]which took place on 2 July 2023 and saw Healy apologise for multiple personal indiscretions,[30]Dirty Hit's general manager suggested mounting a Dirty Hit club night, prompting a suggestion that the label launch an imprint. At the time, XCX's managers had just began managingKelly Lee Owens,who Daniel had been wanting to collaborate with for some years.[7]Later that month, comments made by Healy atMalaysia'sGood Vibes Festivalgot the festival cancelled two days early,[31]prompting its organiser to sue the band's individual members for restitution.[32]Healy later stated in a September 2023 concert inSacramentothat the band would go on "indefinite hiatus" after finishing their booked run of concerts; at the time, their last scheduled gig was in March 2024.[33]

Daniel later signed Owens to Dh2, which launched in July 2024 with her single "Love You Got" and with a party at Phonox inBrixton.[7]The party involved performances from the imprint's first signing Kelly Lee Owens and from DJs Oscar Farrell andTimFromTheHouse.The following month, he released "Screen Cleaner", a glitchy three-minute-30-seconddancetrack cowritten by both its vocalistTove Lo[b]and TimFromTheHouse.[34]The track had previously been performed at various events including appearances with XCX atGlastonbury Festival,Boiler RoomNew York,AmnesiainIbiza,and Venue MOT withJamie xxin London.[36]Remixes were later released by Farrell[37]and Kelbin.[36]In November 2024, Daniel released a further track, "Chlorine", which combinedambient musicandtechno.[38]A further track, February 2025's "Volc3", featured Farrell.[39]

Other works

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In October 2012, he played drums on "Bayonne" onLittle Comets'sLife Is Elsewhere,[40]which charted at No. 70 on the UK Albums Chart.[41]In 2015, after Healy met the Japanese House via an ex-girlfriend, he and Daniel coproduced her EPPools to Bathe In.[42]She and Daniel would later coproduce her EPsClean(2015, with Healy),[43]Swim Against the Tide(2016),[44]andSaw You in a Dream(2017, with Healy),[45]followed by her albumsGood at Falling(2019, withBJ Burton)[46]andIn the End It Always Does(2023, with Chloe Kraemer).[47]The last two of these which charted at numbers 64 and 29 on the UK Albums Chart.[48]In 2017, Healy and Daniel producedPale Waves's "There's a Honey"[49]and "Television Romance".[50]

In 2018, after Healy emailedNo Romeinviting him to the UK,[51]he and Daniel produced Rome's third EP,RIP Indo Hisashi,[52]as well as his fourth EP the following year,Crying in the Prettiest Places.[51]In 2021, Daniel and Burton coproduced Rome's albumIt's All Smiles.[53]In June 2021, Healy and Daniel coproduced Beabadoobee'sOur Extended Play.[54]The following year, Daniel co-produced Beabadoobee and PinkPantheress's "Tinkerbell is Overrated".[55]The track later appeared on Beabadoobee's albumBeatopia,[55]which charted at No. 4 on the UK Albums Chart.[56]In March 2023,Coupdekatstated that "Tinkerbell is Overrated" had inspired her 2023 song "Babyteef".[57]

In March 2022, Daniel andA. G. Cookproduced the title track to Charli XCX's albumCrash,[58]and later that month Daniel produced its deluxe version tracks "Selfish Girl" and "How Can I Not Know What I Need Right Now".[59]The following July, he produced her single "Hot Girl", which appeared on the soundtrack forBodies Bodies Bodies,[60]and the following month he coproduced her andLeo Birenberg'sBottoms.[61]In January 2023, they teamed up for a remix ofCaroline Polachek's "Welcome to My Island",[62]and that October, he co-produced XCX's andSam Smith's single "In the City",[63]which charted at No. 41 on the UK singles chart.[25]For her 2024 albumBrat,he produced XCX's "Club Classics" and "Apple",[64]the latter of which charted at No. 8 on the UK singles chart.[25]"Club Classics" was released as a single alongside "B2B", which featured Daniel on the cover art.[65]Daniel later wentviralafter refusing to take part in "Apple" 's dance,[66]only relenting on the opening date of her Brat tour.[67]In addition,Brat's "Sympathy Is a Knife"and" Club Classics "mention Daniel by name.[68]

In May 2023, he coproduced "Feels Like My Hands Are On Fire" fromSalute's EPShield,which also featured contributions fromSammy Virjiand No Rome.[69]Shaad D'Souza ofThe Facewrote in August 2024 that dance acts like Salute, Virji, andFloating Pointshad "energised" Daniel in "recent years".[7]The following month, Daniel released two remixes of Salute andなかむらみなみ[Wikidata]'s "Go!" from the former's albumTrue Magic.[70]In August 2023, he released a remix ofCarly Rae Jepsen's "Shadow", an album track fromThe Loveliest Time,which she had released the previous month.[71]That September, he remixedCoco & Clair Clair's "The Hills (feat. Deela)",[72]which appeared on the deluxe version of their albumSexy.[73]

Notes

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  1. ^
    • For the second, see[12].
    • For the third, see[13].
  2. ^
    • For the fact that she wrote it, see[34].
    • For the fact that she sung on it, see[35].

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