Reissued as Restored Art (!) Edition! Classic Black Vinyl, DL card. Originally released in 1982, 'They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles' was the influential band's third album.

A collection of singles, demos, outtakes and rarities that was intended to mark the band's breakup in 1982, had they not got back together again so soon.

This 2024 reissue comes with faithfully restored artwork, from one the album's original hand painted sleeves.

The record features 'David Hockney's Diaries', 'The Boy In The Paisley Shirt' and 'Psychedelic Holiday'.

With the formidable Daniel Treacy at its core, Television Personalities remain one of new wave's longest serving and seminal artists, with a career spanning over three decades.

The indie pop visionaries have influenced many people across the industry including Pavement, The Lemonheads, Fat White Family, MGMT and Creation Records' Alan McGee.

"Its scope is incredible, its ambition outstanding and its heart damn near broken." Melody Maker.

"Coming out just after the band first split up, They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles is Television Personalities' 3rd album.

Originally released in 1982 on their own label Whaam! (named after the Roy Lichtenstein painting) They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles is a surprisingly cohesive and entertaining album made of an unannotated retrospective collection of unreleased tracks, demos, early singles, and alternate/unreleased outtakes (all recorded between 1979 and 1982).

Nowhere near perfect but essential 50 plus minutes: from the haunting single "Three Wishes" ("If I had three wishes I'd wish for three more") to the brilliant "David Hockney's Diaries" (a different and much better version from the one on Mummy Your Not Watching Me), adding the perennial punk classic and first single "14th Floor" to the enthusiastically sloppy versions of Creation's "Painter Man" and "Making Time" passing thru the gentle freakbeat of "The Boy In The Paisley Shirt" and "Psychedelic Holiday".

A perfect autumn soundtrack, and autumn is the whole year." MM 1982