McFly: ‘There was always more to us than a boyband’

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Then, in November 2015, to everyone’s surprise, Simpson confirmed he would be rejoining Busted, even though he’d said that being in the band was like “torture”. “None of us ever thought that would happen,” Fletcher says of Busted’s reunion. We can’t wait any longer.” Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up And so they’re also releasing a sixth album, their first new material in a decade, out later this summer, with the first single “Happiness” out this Thursday. Did McFly’s success pave the way for the other, shall we say “mega famous”, boy bands that followed, like One Direction?