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McFly time-travel 10 years into the future
Source: Liverpoolecho

From boy band scamps to wise old men in an amazing decade.

Forget those cheeky young whippersnappers who set teenage hearts aflutter, McFly are back in Liverpool tonight, but they are all grown up.

The quartet who grew up in front of an audience of screaming girls have put their teenage days behind them.

“We’re old men now,” laughs singer Tom Fletcher, 27, the eldest member of the band. “It’s been 10 years since it all began.”

“When we started out, I was what, 17? The others were younger. We were thrown into this crazy world of touring where we had so much freedom in some ways, and so little in others. “We could order room service and mess around all day to an extent, but then we always made the decision that when it came to time to work, we’d work.”

And work they certainly did. Unlike many teenage boybands, they wrote all their songs and kept control of their own affairs. They were founded after Tom missed out on an audition for boyband Busted. Instead, the record company asked him if he’d help write songs for them.

He met Danny Jones, who had gone to an audition for a different band by mistake, and they recruited Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd from an advert in the NME.

Taking over as one of the most popular boybands after label mates Busted split up, the band named after the Back To The Future character Marty McFly have scored hit after hit since they reached No 1 with their debut single, Five Colours In Her Hair, in 2004.

“Contrary to what a lot of people think, we were signed as a band. We weren’t put together,” clarifies Tom.

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