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Teenage Fanclub Biography

The Scottish rock band known as Teenage Fanclub was established in 1989 in Bellshill. Musicians Norman Blake, Raymond McGinley, Gerard Love, Francis MacDonald, and Brendan O’Hare were highly influenced by music coming out of Glasgow at the time, and crafted a sound for Teenage Fanclub that harkens to the California sound of the Beach Boys.

Teenage Fanclub released their debut album, A Catholic Education, in 1990, and it was a moderate success in the United Kingdom. The group’s follow-up, The King, fared better in 1991, but it was the album Bandwagonesqe that finally landed on the mainstream charts in the United States and brought Teenage Fanclub to an international audience. Notable singles from the band’s first three albums include: “Star Sign,” “The Concept,” and “What You Do to Me.”

Between 1993 and 2010, Teenage Fanclub released the additional albums: Thirteen (1993), Grand Priz (1995), Songs from Northern Britain (1997), Howdy! (2000), Words of Wisdom and Hope (2002), Man-Made (2005), and Shadows (2010.) Although only the additional single “Hang On” charted in the United States in 1994, multiple other singles charted in the top forty in the UK, including: “Radio,” “Mellow Doubt,” “Sparky’s Dream,” “Ain’t That Enough,” and “I Don’t Want to Control You.”

Teenage Fanclub continues to perform and record with the current lineup of Blake, McGinley, Love, MacDonald, and Dave McGowan on keyboards and guitar; McGowan joined the group in 2004. Teenage Fanclub’s most recent release, the album Here,” arrived in 2016 and reached into the top ten in the UK.