The One Direction Story

So far:
- 61 album and single no.1’s worldwide
- The last album, ‘Take Me Home’, was no.1 in 37 counties 
- Their debut album, ‘Up All Night’ became no.1 in 17 countries
- The only UK band to have their first 2 albums debut at 1 in US 
- The first British band since The Beatles to have 2 no.1 albums in the same year in the US
- Winners of 2 Brit Awards in 2012 for ‘Best British Single’ and 2013 for ‘Global Success Award’
- Awarded 3 MTV VMA’s and 3 MTV EMA’s
- Received NRJ award for ‘Best International Group’
- Won 3 Billboard Music Awards for ‘Top Duo/Group’, ‘Top New Artist’, ‘Top Pop Artist’.
- 2 x Sunday times bestselling books
- A sold out 2013 UK Arena tour
- Over 18.5 million Facebook fans and 71 million combined followers on Twitter

This year:
- World stadium tour announced for 2014
- Launched their own fragrance ‘Our Moment’ 
- Set to release their movie ‘This is Us’ in cinemas worldwide
- Their new single ‘Best Song Ever’ releasing 22 July 2013

Meet Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson - together they are One Direction. It’s hard to believe that just three years ago these five boys hadn’t even met each other. But with the help of the biggest television show in the UK, The X Factor, their millions of loyal fans and some killer songs, One Direction have become a global phenomenon. And this is their incredible story…

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One Direction go heavy metal (sort of) for a cover of Lamb Of God’s We Rise Again

Get ready to never look at One Direction in the same light again.

Imagine if Harry Styles, Zayn Malik and co, were not the embodiment of manufactured pop perfection and instead, were full-blown heavy metal rock gods…

After all, when you think about it, there’s not much between attending one of their shows and say, one of Lamb Of God’s, right? YouTuber somethingtowatch decided to put the theory to the test and with a surprising outcome.

Moshing? Check. Electric guitars? Check. A screaming Harry styles? Er, check.

While it’s not exactly What Makes You Beautiful, syncing One Direction clips to this does strangely work.

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What do we know so far about One Direction’s fourth album?

Expect a new One Direction album later this year (Picture: Eric Gaillard / Reuters/Reuters)

 From Up All Night and Take Me Home to Midnight Memories,

 One Direction’s sound has continued to develop further

 through each of their albums, and it can only carry on 

in the same ‘direction’.

We’ve gone from some pretty cheesy pop, to some more cheesy pop,

 to a surprising but awesome new pop-rock style.

Keeping up with their trend of releasing an album every year,

 they’ll bring out their fourth record later in 2014, 

and it’s set to be their best yet.

What do we know about it so far though?

In their previous albums, we’ve seen tracks penned by stars such

 as Ed Sheeran, Kelly Clarkson and McFly’s Tom Fletcher, 

Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter. In their more recent releases, 

the One Direction boys themselves have started to write tracks, 

something they’re going to be doing even more of for album number four.

Although the previous album has only been out for a few months,

 the boys have already been working with many exciting writers

 for their new record.

Niall has reunited with McFly’s Tom, Danny and Dougie to write some music,

 following the success of their Midnight Memories tune

 Don’t Forget Where You Belong.

On March 18, he tweeted: ‘Last night I wrote a song with @Dannymcfly @dougiemcfly and @tommcfly’

Then, one day later, he wrote: ‘Just wrote another cool song with danny,dougie and tom!What a laugh that was!’

So, that’s not one, but TWO songs written by Niall and McFly! Exciting! So, that’s the return of McFly confirmed for the album, but are there any new writers?

Well, the boys have revealed they’ve been working with some other names. Irish rock band Kodaline recently teased that they’d written an ‘unrequited love song’ with Harry, while Zayn has been working with producer Naughty Boy and his long-term collaborator Emeli Sande.

So, that’s Niall, Harry and Zayn all working with different people – What have Liam and Louis been up to?

Well, they both headed off to LA to write songs, teaming up with long-time American rockers Good Charlotte. Good Charlotte member Benji tweeted about the work, revealing that 1D’s ‘new album is crazy’.

So, that’s a bit of an idea of who is writing, but WHAT are they writing?

As we said earlier, One Direction’s musical style has developed from pop to a sort of rock-based sound, specifically in most recent album Midnight Memories. Tunes like Little Black Dress and Alive surprised us all – If we didn’t know it was One Direction singing, we’d probably have never guessed!

We can expect this new style for the boys to continue, especially as they’re working with rock artists such as Kodaline and Good Charlotte. But could we be getting a more urban sound alongside it?

Producer Naughty Boy could introduce a new twist to the band’s music, and there’s also a rumour that Zayn is going to try his hand at rapping! A source told The Sun: ‘Zayn’s loved getting creative and is fast gaining confidence to try out new things musically. He even plucked up the courage to try to give rapping a shot. Everyone has been impressed with the results. The results sound similar to Drake.’

Sounds interesting, right?

No matter what new musical direction the boys wander off into, there’s still likely to be some classic 1D style tunes on the album. Even on Midnight Memories, in between the adventurous new rock tracks, there were still songs like Best Song Ever, Don’t Forget Where You Belong and Does He Know?, which could have easily slotted in on Take Me Home.

So, that’s pretty much all we know so far!

It leaves us to wonder what the album will be called though…

Following the trend of Up All Night, Take Me Home and Midnight Memories, the fourth album could quite easily be called That’s Not My Baby or something like that.

We’re sure that whatever One Direction ends up putting out, it will sound great and be adored by Directioners.

We can’t wait!

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Proof Harry Styles is the finest member of One Direction

Harry Styles has yet again proved he’s the kind-hearted gentleman we had him down as.

The 20-year-old was put to the test by Matt Healy (son of Denise Welch and Tim Healy and lead singer of The 1975) on Nick Grimshaw’s Radio 1 breakfast show during the latest round of Call Or Delete.

The game sees celebs prank call their high-profile contacts live on air and when he was called up, Hazza didn’t disappoint.

After a quick apology for the early morning wake-up call, Matt said: ‘I was just wondering, this is going to sound ridiculous, but I’m trying to get in touch with Niall…

‘Basically I need £5k, I’m in Chalk Farm (north London) and I’m having an emergency… it’s actually quite a serious situation.

‘I’m in a phone booth and a bloke is pointing at a picture of [Take That’s] Mark Owen. It’s actually quite threatening.’

Taking the matter very seriously indeed, Harry replied: ‘OK, well, we’re in Bristol. But let me go and I’ll get my assistant to call you and she’ll sort it out.’

We can’t quite imagine Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan behaving in quite the same way. Can you?

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The Voice’s Rachael O’Connor confesses ‘obsession’ with One Direction ‘bad boy’ Liam Payne

Exclusive: The Voice hopeful Rachael O’Connor wants to be a star to get close to her idols One Direction, she revealed.

But before the boys rush to get a restraining order against the 17-year-old, she has promised she is ‘no stalker’.

‘I am obsessed with 1D,’ said Rachael, of Derry in Northern Ireland.

So how will she react if she meets the boys?

‘I wouldn’t be like “I love you, marry me”,’ she said.

‘I’d act really cool and hopefully they’d want to be my friend.’

It seems she harbours hopes to be most friendly with Liam Payne, 20.

‘He’s become the bad boy. He’s just cool,’ she said.

Rachael’s ‘no wild child’, however. She played good-girl-gone-bad Sandy Olsson in a Grease stage show recently and admitted: ‘I couldn’t strut. It isn’t for me.’

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Kian Egan has just gone and stuck the knife into One Direction – BIG time

Westlife star Kian Egan has sensationally stuck the knife into One Direction, claiming he thinks the boys are going to ‘throw it away’.

Irish Kian, 33, was one fifth of Westlife for 14 years so knows a thing or two about boybands – but that hasn’t stopped him coming across slightly bitter with his latest comments.

Perhaps trying to give them innocent advice, Kian aired his fears that the five lads – Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan – don’t know how lucky they are.

‘One Direction would be fools to throw it away, absolute fools – and I get the feeling they will,’ he admitted to The Sun.

And then comparing them to Westlife, he added: ‘I watch them and they don’t seem to have this bond as tight as we had in Westlife – especially as they’ve only been together three or four years.’

Rift rumours between the 1D lads, who formed on The X Factor in 2010, really stepped up a gear in February when they admitted they hadn’t seen each other for three months while taking a break from their tour.

But Kian says hopefully the time out will give them a fresh boost.

‘It’s human nature to take time off. They probably needed to do that,’ he added.

And warning them against allowing one member to get a little too cocky, he added: ‘As we always said in Westlife, there’s not one person in a band that’s bigger than the band.

‘Respect each other and understand that it’s a unit, it’s not a bunch of individuals wanting to do what they want to do.’

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Devastating One Direction news: Harry Styles basically moving to the US

It looks as though Harry Styles will be spending even less time in the UK after he allegedly forked out £2.6 million on a Los Angeles mansion.

Following in the footsteps of bandmate Niall Horan, who added a luxury US pad to his property portfolio last year, 20-year-old Styles was keen to have a base in the States because he prefers the atmosphere over there – not because his rumoured love interest Kendall Jenner lives there.

A source said: ‘Harry’s only told a few people and not many people know the exact location of the pad, but it is fairly spectacular, with an outdoor pool, home entertainment room and gym.

‘Harry loves LA and feels really at home there. He also gets less hassled there because people are used to seeing A-listers all over the place,’ the insider continued.

‘England will always be home, but he will be spending a lot more time in Los Angeles and Hollywood now,’ the source added to The Mirror.

One Direction are back to work after a few months off as they get cracking on their fourth album before embarking on their stadium world tour next month.

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