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 Busted are a British Pop Punk/Pop Rock Boy Band that formed in 2001, comprising band members James Bourne, Charlie Simpson, and Matt Willis.Despite being mainly supplanted by McFly and Scissor Sisters in the public consciousness, they were influential at the time for bringing back guitar-driven pop bands, which resulting in them having a great many copycat acts at the time. They were also the highest-selling band in the UK for two years, outselling Coldplay.They were best known for their songs "What I Go To School For" and "Year 3000" (both were later covered by The Jonas Brothers for their first album, albeit with altered lyrics due to a demographic shift), and for covering "Cruella De Vil" from 101 Dalmatians in America for Disneymania 2, in addition to having their own TV show on Disney Channel.Busted split up in 2005 due to Simpson wanting to focus on other music projects and the other two not wanting to continue the group without him. Simpson went on to start the Post-Hardcore band Fightstar and release a few solo albums, Bourne went on to form the pop punk band Son of Dork (which lasted three years before going on hiatus) and started a solo career under the name Future Boy (he really loves Back to the Future) and as himself, and Willis continued by himself solo.In 2013, Bourne and Willis reformed the band and teamed up with McFly to form a new supergroup called McBusted, with which they toured from 2013 to 2015 and released one studio album named after the group. They were good friends with McFly for years, as Tom Fetcher was briefly in Busted and wrote with them on many of their songs on their first few albums, so the team-up made sense. Since this was only a temporary situation, the bands went their separate ways at the end of their 2015 tour.In 2015, the band reformed in their classic line-up, with a new album in preparation. This was accomplished after Bourne invited Simpson to come with him and Willis to Philadelphia to try to write songs in 2015. When this was successful, they subsequently started recording the songs in California and decided to reform the band. They embarked on a reunion tour in summer 2016 called the Pigs Can Fly Tour (referencing what Simpson had said years prior to the band reforming), released their third studio album as a band (in a different musical direction than what was probably expected), and toured around England, Scotland, and Ireland. A fourth album, Half Way There, was released in 2019.Additionally, Willis has carved out a career as an actor and TV personality after winning I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2006, appearing in roles in EastEnders and Birds of a Feather. In 2023, Simpson won the fourth season of The Masked Singer (UK), competing as the Rhino.
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