In praise of Dan Treacy, the last bluesman in England

The new album from the Television Personalities songsmith confirms that he is the poet laureate of working-class LondonSometimes pop music surprises me. Who would have thought MGMT were big Television Personalities fans? I was shocked to see they had included A Song for Dan Treacy (on their new album Congratulations), and it made me smile to think of their fanbase searching Google to find out more about him. In the same way that Kurt Cobain introduced the world to Daniel Johnston, the song will ...

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