Years & Years had just signed to Polydor when he visited the shrink.“I said: ‘The album’s coming out and I really want it to be successful,’ and he said: ‘What happens if it isn’t?’ I said: ‘Well, that’s not an option because I have planned it in my diary since I was a teenager.’”That diary was less about chronicling the present than a series of promises he made to himself. “I planned my life till I was 25.
I would be a famous musician ’cos musicians were the coolest people in the world. The biggest thing in the list was buying my mum a house, and I did that.
That was the coolest thing to be able to do with my money.” He smiles. “That was the coolest thing ever.”Now Alexander might well benefit from another visit to the shrink because he’s.