Cast your mind back to 2003. Tony Blair was still the Prime Minister, the London congestion charge was introduced, the Iraq war began, ‘Dirty’ Den Watts returned to EastEnders after a 14-year absence, Jude Bellingham was born and Concorde made its final commercial flight. During the same 12-month period, four young men including one from Bromley Cross – Tom Fletcher, Bolton's Danny Jone s, Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter – got together to form McFly, a pop-rock act that within a year had taken the UK charts by storm.
Since then, they have had 18 consecutive top 20 UK chart singles, seven of which have reached No 1; they’ve also sold more than 10 million records worldwide. In 2013, the quartet teamed up with their old mates from Busted to form supergroup McBusted, and they’re planning on doing something similar again next year – tickets are already available and have been selling like hotcakes. Twenty-one arena dates have been announced, with 110,000 fans expected to see them in London alone.
READ MORE: ITV I’m a Celebrity 2024 line-up ‘confirmed’ - see full list McFly star looks back on his early career Bromley Cross takes centre stage as teen joins McFly star But before that, McFly (they named themselves after Michael J Fox’s character in the Back to the Future franchise, in case you were wondering) are celebrating their 21st anniversary: “We still can’t believe it’s been 21 years!” The band’s members claimed in a statement released by ITV ahead.
