If he made a movie about us, this would be the soundtrack.' If no one watches Dynasty anymore, except perhaps in chance encounters at the outer edge of the Sky Plus planner, then the legacy of Hughes's ensemble movies about teenage and young adult life lives on, as was evident in the responses to his death in 2009. 'We wanted to make a record was almost a soundtrack to our teenage years. 'We're massive fans of John Hughes,' singer Matt Healy has said. At times, their debut is so precisely calibrated to 1983 that you can all but hear Tommy Vance's voice: 'This is the Radio 1 official top 40 – and that was the 1975, tasting good in that all-important No 15 slot with Chocolate …' So why is their debut expected to go high in the charts, with sellout shows in big venues to come, while Palladium's didn't even get released? You can even imagine them saying they want to embrace both the Sex Pistols and Chic. The 1975 look to roughly the same period on their debut album, and also offer up some memorable songs with some sharp lyrics. They looked as if they should have been appearing in a nightclub scene in Dynasty rather than cropping up on Molly Ringwald's turntable in a John Hughes movie.

They had some memorable songs and some sharp lyrics, but it was hard to avoid the suspicion that they were to Duran Duran what the Darkness were to Judas Priest: a fond and elaborate practical joke. They were an odd affair, seemingly transported from the mid-80s, the kind of band who wouldn't make much sense unless their videos were filmed on yachts, with the members wearing silk jackets with the sleeves not rolled but pushed up their arms you could imagine them on the Swap Shop sofa telling Noel Edmonds they wanted to sound like both Chic and the Sex Pistols. Palladium's debut album, despite being sent out to the media repeatedly, backed by a press campaign that verged on the hysterical, was never actually released, and Palladium ceased to be. Or, rather, it was flashed ever so briefly in front of them before it was decided this was a proposition in which the public had no interest.

A few years back, an extraordinary proposition by the name of Palladium was set before the British public.

The 1975 deluxe album