George Daniel

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George Daniel
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Daniel performing in Germany in 2019
Background information
Birth nameGeorge Bedford Daniel
Born Brussels, Belgium
Origin Wilmslow, England
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • record producer
InstrumentsDrums
Years active2002–present
Member of The 1975
Partner(s) Charli XCX (2022–present; engaged)

George Bedford Daniel is a British drummer and record producer. He came to prominence as a founding member, principal producer, and drummer of the indie art pop band the 1975.

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Daniel has also co-produced The Japanese House's Good at Falling and In the End It Always Does , which charted at numbers 64 and 29 on the UK Albums Chart, and Charli XCX and Sam Smith's "In the City", which charted at No. 41 on the UK Singles Chart.

His songwriting and producing partnership with the 1975's Matty Healy made him the co-recipient of four Brit Awards, and two Ivor Novello Awards including Songwriter of the Year. He has also been co-nominated twice for the Mercury Prize, and once for the Grammy Awards.

Life and career

Early life and the 1975

George Bedford Daniel [1] was born in Brussels, Belgium, and grew up in Seattle, Washington, U.S., returning to England to settle in Wilmslow, Cheshire when he was nine. [2] He was first inspired by the airiness of Fleetwood Mac's works. [3] In 2002, whilst at Wilmslow High School, [4] he joined the 1975 as drummer, replacing Matty Healy, [5] who had been promoted to lead singer, replacing future Editors keyboardist Elliott Williams. [6] Having taken music technology at GCSE, Daniel left school at sixteen to study music production at a nearby college; at the time, he and his bandmates were demoing the band, and Daniel would regularly use the studio at college to work on 1975 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 in Manchester, during which time all four members worked as delivery drivers for a Chinese restaurant. [7]

The 1975 released four extended plays ( Facedown in August 2012, Sex in November 2012, Music for Cars in March 2013 and IV in May 2013) [8] before releasing the albums The 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) and Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2022), all five of which topped the UK Albums Chart. [9] Daniel and Healy were nominated for Songwriter of the Year at the 2023 Ivor Novello Awards. [10] As part of the 1975, he is joint recipient of a Brit Award for British Group in 2017 [11] and 2019, a Brit Award for British Album of the Year in 2019, [12] and a Brit Award for Best Rock/Alternative Act in 2023, [13] and an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year in 2019; [14] additionally, they won British Album of the Year at the 2019 Brit Awards for A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, [12] and an Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song for their song "Love It If We Made It". [14] They were also nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2016 for I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It [15] and in 2019 for A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, [16] and for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song for "Give Yourself a Try" in 2020. [17]

No Rome and Charli XCX

In 2018, after Healy emailed No Rome inviting him to the UK, [18] he and Daniel produced Rome's third EP, RIP Indo Hisashi, [19] as well as his fourth EP the following year, Crying in the Prettiest Places. [18] In 2020, while at that year's St Jerome's Laneway Festival, Healy, Daniel, and Charli XCX worked on No Rome's 2021 single "Spinning", which was credited to "No Rome feat. Charli XCX & The 1975", [20] and charted at No. 94 on the UK Singles Chart; [21] later that year, Daniel and Burton coproduced Rome's album It's All Smiles. [22] In March 2022, Daniel and A. G. Cook produced the title track to Charli XCX's album Crash , [23] and later that month Daniel produced its deluxe version tracks "Selfish Girl" and "How Can I Not Know What I Need Right Now". [24] In July 2022, he produced her "Hot Girl", which appeared on the soundtrack for Bodies Bodies Bodies , [25] and the following month he coproduced her and Leo Birenberg's Bottoms. [26] In January 2023, they teamed up for a remix of Caroline Polachek's "Welcome to My Island", [27] and in October 2023, he coproduced XCX's and Sam Smith's single "In the City", [28] which charted at No. 41 on the UK Singles Chart. [21]

The Japanese House and other works

In October 2012, he played drums on "Bayonne" on Little Comets' Life Is Elsewhere , [29] which charted at No. 70 on the UK Albums Chart. [30] In 2015, after Healy met the Japanese House via an ex-girlfriend, he and Daniel coproduced her EP Pools to Bathe In ; [31] the Japanese House and Daniel would later coproduce her EPs Clean (2015, with Healy), [32] Swim Against the Tide (2016), [33] and Saw You in a Dream (2017, with Healy), [34] followed by her albums Good at Falling (2019, with BJ Burton) [35] and In the End It Always Does (2023, with Chloe Kraemer), [36] which charted at numbers 64 and 29 on the UK Albums Chart. [37] In 2017, Healy and Daniel produced Pale Waves' "There's a Honey" [38] and "Television Romance". [39]

In 2021, Healy and Daniel coproduced Beabadoobee's Our Extended Play , [40] and the following year Daniel coproduced her and PinkPantheress' "Tinkerbell is Overrated", which Coupdekat later cited as inspiring her 2023 song "Babyteef", [41] and which later appeared on Beabadoobee's album Beatopia , [42] which charted at No. 4 on the UK Albums Chart. [43] In May 2023, he coproduced "Feels Like My Hands Are On Fire" from Salute's EP Shield, [44] and in August 2023, he released a remix of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Shadow", an album track from The Loveliest Time , which she had released the previous month. [45] In September 2023 he remixed Coco & Clair Clair's "The Hills (feat. Deela)", [46] which appeared on the deluxe version of their album Sexy. [47]

Personal life

In May 2016, while on The 1975’s I Like It When You Sleep Tour, Daniel broke his shoulder after slipping off their tour bus. He was temporarily replaced by The Japanese House's drummer Freddy Sheed, whom he later congratulated for learning their entire set in less than 24 hours. [48]

In 2021, he was dealing with depression, which combined with Healy's breakup with FKA Twigs prompted the band to hit a wall during the making of the band's fifth studio album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language . [49]

Daniel's relationship with British musician Charli XCX was made public in May 2022, [50] and they announced their engagement in November 2023. [51]

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