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English pop rock band

For the band's debut album, see The (album). For other uses, see The (disambiguation).

The are an English pop rock band formed in Wilmslow, Cheshire, in ^[1][2] The band consists of Matty Healy (lead vocals, guitar, primary songwriter), Adam Hann (lead guitar), Ross MacDonald (bass), and George Daniel (drums, primary producer).^[3][4] The band's name was inspired by a page of scribblings found in Healy's preowned copy of On the Road by Jack Kerouac which was dated "1 June, The ".

The band members met in secondary school and first performed together as teenagers in , before professionally releasing music in under the independent label Dirty Hit.^[5] From to , they opened for several major acts and released a series of extended plays—Facedown, Sex, Music for Cars, and IV—before releasing their UK chart-topping self-titled debut album (), which included the popular singles "Sex", "Chocolate