Biography
Teenage Filmstars are an English, post punk, independent, psychedelic 1980s-90s band, formed in 1979 by Edward Ball, Daniel Treacy and Joseph Foster. The band segued into The Times in 1980, re-appearing on Creation Records under the old name in 1992, this time as a shoegaze outfit.
During both spells of the band's existence, Teenage Filmstars demonstrated Ball's musical ability to mimic contemporary pop music at will: ska and electropop in 1979 and 1980, britrock and nineties psychedelia in the 1990s.
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In 1979 and 1980 the band name was often spelled as Teenage Film Stars, sometimes The Teenage Film Stars, but Teenage Filmstars has become the most commonly used spelling.
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