Watch a 10 year-old Matty Healy share his pop star goals as The 1975 prepare to headline Glastonbury 2025

27 June 2025, 10:00

The 1975's Matty Healy performs at Leeds Festival 2023 in Bramham Park. Picture: Tin!y / Alamy

The clip, which is taken from his mum Denise Welch's This Is Your Life episode in 1999, sees a young Matty reveal his dreams of superstardom.

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The 1975 are preparing to achieve a career milestone by headlining Glastonbury this Friday (27th June).

While it's safe to say playing the top slot on the Pyramid Stage would be on many artists' bucket lists, it's the kind of achievement only very few can dream of as kids.

However, a young Matty Healy probably wouldn't be too surprised that the band's about to take up the festival slot, as this throwback video proves he had his sights set on stardom from a very young age.

Mini Matty appeared on his mother Denise Welch's episode of This Is Your Life in 1999, having already been a guest on his father Tim Healy's episode the year before. There he'd made quite an impression, admitting that he wanted to be in show business while showing off his best Michael Jackson moves.

Fast forward to 1999 and when presenter Michael Aspel quizzed him on how it was "coming along", the young Healy replied: "Well, since then I've been playing the drums and I've got quite good progress on that and I'd really like to be a top-class musician."

"Buy a mum a new mansion," he added flippantly. "An LA mansion in Los Angeles.... in her dreams..."

The 1975 frontman Matty Healy appears on 'This Is Your Life' in 1999 with mum Denise Welch

Well, it certainly looks like it was little Matty's dreams came true. Though it's uncertain whether his mother got that LA mansion, The 1975 are indeed a global success and are set to headline Glastonbury Festival for the first time ever!

They'll be joined on the line-up by Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo, who will top the bill at the Pyramid Stage on the Saturday and Sunday nights respectively as well as Biffy Clyro, Wet Leg, The Maccabees, Charlie xcx, The Prodigy, The Libertines, Busta Rhymes, Blossoms, Nova Twins, Kaiser Chiefs, Alanis Morrissette, Kneecap, Wolf Alice, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Doechii and many more.