Photos: Gary Chancer SAN FRANCISCO — The 1975 took the stage to an near-thundering collective scream of fans, many of whom had created a line several blocks long outside the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. They brought flowers and other gifts for frontman Matthew Healy, the object of affection for…

Matty Healy of The 1975 and Dan Smith of Bastille. The mohawked frontman of Manchester’s The 1975 drops the phone just as our call is connected. “Oh, for f—‘s sake,” Matty Healy cringes, and I can tell I’m not his first interview of the morning. But just as quickly the…

The 1975 performs at The Fillmore in San Francisco on April 17, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Matty Healy describes his life, at this moment, as a series of surreal situations strung together by his and his bandmates’ tales of other surreal stories: being approached by David Bowie; opening for the…