Busted

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Regarding the title, Willis told Newsbeat, "The whole pigs can fly thing sums up how we feel about this. Despite the huge success of Busted, Simpson began to grow increasingly discontented with the pop star lifestyle and the music he was performing. The version of "Year 3000" which appears as the B-side to " Sleeping with the Light On" is the version which the band presented to Universal Music before they were signed by the label.

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Six tracks on the album were co-written with John McLaughlin and Steve Robson, who often collaborate with each other. The full-length album was finally finished in February 2011 and was mastered by John Davis at Metropolis Studios in London. Willis also mentioned that many upcoming indie bands and fans had spoken to him, stating that: 'I meet them and they’ll say, ‘The first song I learned to play was What I Go to School For, and, ‘the first time I picked up a guitar was playing Busted tab’. Scottish music publication The Fly also lauded the album as "one of the 21st Century's ultimate rock debuts".In June 2017 Busted flew to Los Angeles to perform their first American re-formed gig at the Troubadour and continue writing and begin recording for their planned fourth album. In May that year, Cobus Potgieter, who had previously stood in as drummer on Busted's 2016 tour, announced that he would be the studio drummer for the upcoming fourth album. James Bourne and Matt Willis originally auditioned for other bands which neither of them made it into.

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During a show on his 2015 UK Tour at London's Islington Assembly Hall, [ citation needed] Simpson announced that he and his wife were expecting their first child together. My Good Friend" has never been released on CD, and only appears on the cassette release of "You Said No", becoming one of the rarest Busted tracks around.Willis also revealed that Busted had been approached to star in the ITV2 series The Big Reunion, but turned it down because "it didn't feel right for our band.

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Formed in 2000, the band has had four UK number-one singles, won two Brit Awards, released four studio albums and sold over 5 million records worldwide. Simpson married his long-time girlfriend Anna Barnard in June 2014, following the announcement of their engagement the week earlier. On 26 May 2023, Busted released a cover version of the 1997 Hanson hit " MMMBop", in collaboration with the latter band, titled "MMMBop 2. The first release is a new version of Loser Kid, from Busted’s debut album; the track will hit airwaves on April 14 and will feature pop rock stars Simple Plan.In your user account, you can import your Spotify library or ‘follow’ artists you find on our site to add them to your ‘favourites’. A European-only single, " Hurra, hurra, die Schule brennt", was released on the same date as "You Said No" was released in the UK.

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Nineties" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 81 on the UK Singles Sales Chart. We hated the machine of pop, we split up at the height of our fame, they were talking about us putting on a Wembley Stadium gig and we gave it up. Upon announcing that Wheatus would be joining McBusted on tour in 2014, Willis stated that the band was a "massive Busted influence". On 13 January 2005, Busted's record label announced that a press conference was to be held at the Soho Hotel in London the following day. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers.

On 18 August 2016, it was announced by BBC News that a musical based on the band's history written by Bourne and Elliot Davis was to be staged, What I Go to School For will depict the group's rise to fame. On 30 September 2016, " On What You're On" was released as the first official single from the album. Two days later, on 20 October 2016, Busted announced that due to production delays, the album release would be pushed back to 25 November 2016. in November 2009, Simpson said, "It was a real fun thing to be doing, and I got on well with everyone I was doing it with, but on the other side, the music wasn't really fulfilling me. With the original line-up of Busted having broken up in 2001, guitarist James Bourne and bassist Matt Willis set about finding a new band member.