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first big break

McFly
Danny Jones (guitar/vocals), Tom Fletcher (guitar/vocals), Dougie Poynter (bass, vocals) and Harry Judd (drums) are McFly.

The McFly story and big break dates back to 2001 when Tom saw an advertisement in NME - a band were after one final member, and he fancied his chances. He got down to the final two but when the final place in that band - Busted - went to some guy called Charlie, Tom began his own deal with Busted’s manager’s own production label and McFly was born.

Tom stayed in touch with James and the pair started writing together – in fact, the name McFly was inspired by one of James’ early songs, ‘Year 3000’.

The arrival of Danny Jones as Tom’s partner meant the band was taking shape and it wasn’t long before the McFly pair were performing for people all over London. They continued to write with James of Busted and recorded a number of their songs – eventually playing them acoustically for key major labels and signing with Universal.

The final step was to advertise for more members with the help of adverts in the NME. The auditions found Harry and Dougie - who was so nervous that he literally threw up minutes before his audition. Finally the lineup was complete.

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