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In Cambridge in the late 1970s, Debsey Wykes, Rachel Bor and Hester Smith formed the pioneering all-girl band Dolly Mixture. In the wake of punk, the music world may well have been blown wide open, but it was still a very male-dominated environment and only a handful of women prepared to venture onstage unaccompanied, even fewer played their own instruments and wrote their own songs.
Based around the diaries that Debsey has kept since childhood as well as contemporaneous letters from fans, Teenage Daydream is structured around one calendar year and consists of twelve chapters for each month. Starting in January 1984 as the girls, unknowingly, embarked on their final year together as a band, each chapter begins with a diary entry and fan letter from that particular month before jumping back in time to trace the stories and events throughout the band's history.
During their time, Dolly Mixture supported some of the biggest alternative groups of the day - the Jam, the Fall, the Undertones, Dexys - as well as having some of the biggest bands of all time support them - U2. They recorded sessions for John Peel, had a number-one single with Captain Sensible ('Happy Talk', 1981), appeared on Top of the Pops numerous times, released records on Paul Weller's Respond label and ultimately fell short of world domination after six years of trying.
This is a story of teenage dreams and friendships and of three girls who sought to take the pop world by storm.