McFly

McFly is a pop group based in the United Kingdom The band members are Danny Jones (born March 12, 1986), Dougie Poynter (born November 30, 1987), Tom Fletcher (born July

McFly is a pop group based in the United Kingdom The band members are Danny Jones (born March 12, 1986), Dougie Poynter (born November 30, 1987), Tom Fletcher (born July 17, 1985) and Harry Judd (born December 23, 1985). McFly are often described as "mates with Busted" (Harry Judd and Charlie Simpson from Busted went to the same school, Uppingham), a male guitar band with a similar slightly rockier edge than more well-known boy bands such as Westlife.

In spite of this modern "boy band" and "pop" image and reputation, a lot of McFly's songs have the feeling of a good fun pop band, accentuated by the presence of all members of a typical four-piece rock band (unlike Busted, this includes a full time drummer). There are also a lot of evident influences from such popular classic (rather than modern) pop bands as The Beach Boys and The Beatles, and more recently Bruce Springsteen and The Who. Critics have labelled McFly music as "Nu-Pop". However the band are less hasty to shrug off the 'boyband' title that the critics feel they resent, as when they recently met Roger Daltry of The Who he informed them that "at the start, we [The Who] were a boyband too."