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2[[caption-width-right:322:L-R: Tom, Dougie, Danny, Harry]]
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4[=McFly=] are a British Pop-Rock band who were formed in 2003. While being rather obscure in most overseas countries (In America, non-fans will probably only know them from the movie ''Film/JustMyLuck'', if they've even heard of them at all), they're a mainstream success in the UK, with 15 top-ten singles, 7 number ones and a World Record for youngest band ever to have their debut album chart at number 1 (The record was previously held by Music/TheBeatles).
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6In 2006 they had supporting roles in ''Film/JustMyLuck'', alongside Creator/LindsayLohan. (It was there that [[RomanceOnTheSet Harry and Lindsay would have a supposed fling]], which inspired their song 'Please Please')
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8[=McFly=] have released 6 Studio Albums (7 if you count "Just My Luck" in the US), 3 Greatest Hits Albums (Two regular, one exclusively B-sides sold only in certain Woolworths stores), 3 live [=DVDs=] and one [[TheMovie movie]] (Not counting ''Just My Luck''). They recently released ''The Lost Songs'' comprised of songs they recorded in 2011-2013, confirmed by Dougie in a podcast in January 2019. They also teamed up with their friends James Bourne and Matt Willis of Music/{{Busted}} to form [=McBusted=], then released an album in 2014.
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10Yes, they are indeed named after the family from ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''.
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12
13!!The members of [=McFly=] are:
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15* Tom Fletcher (Guitar, piano, vocals)
16* Danny Jones (Guitar, vocals)
17* Dougie Poynter (Bass, vocals)
18* Harry Judd (Drums)
19
20!!Discography
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22* ''Room on the 3rd Floor (2004)''
23* ''Wonderland (2005)''
24* ''Just My Luck (2006) (USA Only)''
25* ''Motion in the Ocean (2006)''
26* ''All The Greatest Hits (2007)''
27* ''The Greatest Bits: B-Sides and Rarities (2007) (Woolworths stores only)''
28* ''Radio:ACTIVE (2008)''
29* ''Above the Noise (2010)''
30* ''Memory Lane: The Best of [=McFly=] (2012)''
31* ''The Lost Songs (2019)''
32* ''Young Dumb Thrills (2020)''
33* ''Power to Play (2023)''
34
35* Other albums:
36** ''[=McBusted=]'' (2014) (w/ James Bourne and Matt Willis of Busted)
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38
39!!Tropes:
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41* AbbeyRoadCrossing: The guys cross it a couple of times in the video for "5 Colours In Her Hair".
42* AlbumTitleDrop: They seem to like this trope:
43** "Wonderland" comes from the first verse of ''Ultraviolet''; "Nothing goes to plan, it's all a game of chance they say in Wonderland."
44** "Please, Please" from their third album "Motion in the Ocean" uses "Let's get the motion in the ocean so turn off your phone now."
45** "Above The Noise" appeared in the first lines of the second verse in "Shine a Light"; "Tell me can you hear my voice, loud and clear above the noise?"
46%% * AudienceParticipationSong: "One For The Radio"
47* BreakupSong:
48** "Don't Know Why" - a song Danny and his sister wrote about their parent's split.
49%%** 'Sorry's Not Good Enough' should qualify in ''spades''.
50%%** "Bubble Wrap". "POV", "Too Close For Comfort" too.
51* BSide: Quite often. Usually they are either Cover Versions or previews of songs from an upcoming new album.
52* CallBack: Their second Greatest Hits album, 'Memory Lane', is named after an album track from ''Wonderland''.
53** 'I'll Be Your Man' appears to be sung to a girl named Kate, likely a reference to a previous track on the same album, If U C Kate, especially since the latter is about looking for Kate while the former mentions her being found.
54* TheCameo: Harry played the drummer in the background for the video for Busted's 'Crashed the Wedding.'
55** They also had a cameo in the Series/DoctorWho episode ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound Of Drums]]'' doing promo for [[Characters/DoctorWhoJohnSimmsMaster Harold Saxon's]] campaign for Prime Minister.
56* ContinuityNod: Their song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APlPjz9Ry84 Love Is Easy]], is filled with [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/57a4689f7570e4325423ce05d1cc1990/tumblr_mfiubfwMvT1ru4jifo1_1280.jpg references and allusions]] to their earlier albums.
57* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: Their cover of 'I Kissed a Girl' is changed to be about a gay man questioning his sexuality.
58%% * CoverVersion: Lots of them.
59%% * DarkerAndEdgier: The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrn6BbM0TRQ Party Girl]].
60* ADayInTheLimelight: Dougie, who is normally reduced to just singing backup, gets to be the lead vocalist in 'Transylvania', and B-sides [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J8Fos-kap0 Ignorance]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRZ5bu8Y948 Silence is a Scary Sound]]. Also, the storyline part of the video for "That's The Truth" is about him.
61* DidNotGetTheGirl: A frequent theme. Songs include "Obviously", "Unsaid Things", "That Girl" (where he got the girl and then lost her).
62%% * DrivenToSuicide: What "She Falls Asleep" is about.
63* DontTryThisAtHome: This disclaimer pops up during the video for "Star Girl", during a scene in which Dougie jumps off the roof of a house. Some channels had this scene removed altogether.
64* DyingMomentOfAwesome: The premise for "The Last Song":
65-->"If this is the last song I'll ever sing,
66-->I'm giving it everything, I'm giving it all"
67%% * {{Fanservice}}: The video for '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuEprxvR-9s Please Please]].'
68%% ** Party Girl's music video as well.
69* FiveSecondForeshadowing: The seconds chorus of "5 Colours in Her Hair" changes one of the lines to ask, "How will she cope with her newfound fame?" The bridge shortly after the chorus reveals the answer: [[FreakOut not very well]].
70* GenreThrowback: Their first album is very SurfRock heavy, clearly inspired by the likes of Music/TheBeachBoys.
71* GreatestHitsAlbum: Two, plus a "Greatest ''Bits'' Album".
72* GroinAttack: Tom gets one at the end of the video for "Sorry's Not Good Enough." Considering what he does during the video, though, (duct-taping his girlfriend to her chair and forcing her to relive memories of them in order to stop their break up) it's clear that he deserves it.
73* HistoryRepeats: Mild but Dougie spent 2011 going through the same thing Matt Willis of Busted went through in 2006. Namely rehab and then going on to win that years I'm A Celebrity.
74* InterspeciesRomance: 'Star Girl' is about falling for an alien woman.
75%% * LoopedLyrics: Do Ya
76* LyricalDissonance:
77** 'The Ballad Of Paul K' sounds quite cheerful and calming for a song about a man going through a mid-life crisis.
78** "Don't Know Why" has very cheery, great to dance to music and the lyrics are about a guy sitting in the pub with his dad who's splitting up with his wife because he's found someone else.
79---> ''"I don't want to know your game, let alone her name. No matter what you say to me, we are not the same."''
80* MediaWatchdog: The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiWQZ7RC5us "Do Ya"]] was not allowed to be aired on some channels due to its violent content. Ironic, considering 'Do Ya' was the Children in Need charity single for that year,
81** "Party Girl" had to have some scenes removed in order to be allowed on television.
82** 'I Wanna Hold You' was reworked slightly to change some of the lyrics to make it commercially viable as a single after a reviewer noted it was a bit too violent to be a serious pop hit (note that the only real lyrical change is changing "destroy the world" to "change the world" and "It's like a neutron bomb explosion" to "You keep polluting like the ocean").
83* TheMovie: Parodied during one of their interviews; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUEAyT1qu3A Coming soon: The McFly: The Interview: The Movie]].
84** Played straight with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQk6tbGoOOY Nowhere Left to Run]], a short film created to promote 'Above The Noise'.
85%%* NewSoundAlbum: 'Above The Noise'
86%%* NonAppearingTitle: "Transylvania"
87* PopPunk: Their fourth album, [=radio:ACTIVE=], dives head first into the genre, not that they didn't record songs in the genre before then, or after. In fact, they rerecorded their hit, '5 Colours in Her Hair' in this style for ''Just My Luck's'' soundtrack, which became how they performed the song live afterwards.
88* PrecisionFStrike:
89** "Everybody Knows" leaves a space to be filled in by the word "fuck," which Dougie often fills in himself during live performances.
90** 'IF U C Kate's' title literally has each middle letter spell out "fuck."
91** 'Growing Up' has, "The best that you can do is not give a ''fuck.''"
92* PunctuatedForEmphasis: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUz4jDAxgEQ "WE! DON'T! WE! DON'T! CARE!"]].
93* RealLifeWritesThePlot: 'Please, Please' was written after some tabloids thought that Harry and Lindsay Lohan had a relationship. It even includes references to her (the girl being wooed in the song is named Lindsay, she has green eyes, and has red hair, just like Lohan).
94* RemakeCameo: Dougie played the guy the girl was in love with instead of one of the band members in The Vamps' music video for their cover of 'That Girl.'
95* {{Rockumentary}}: Short ones were usually included as special features on their live [=DVDs=]. A four-episode documentary of their Up Close and Personal tour was aired on MTV in the UK.
96** Also there was a six part fly on the wall documentary aired on 5* in the UK in 2011, Brilliantly named [[EpunymousTitle McFly On The Wall]].
97* RevisitingTheRoots: ''The Lost Songs'' has several songs that wouldn't be too out of place on their first 2 albums, which isn't too surprising considering they're cowritten by James Bourne, who cowrote most of the songs on their first album.
98* SelfReferentialTrackPlacement: The TitleTrack of ''Room on the 3rd Floor'' is track #3.
99* ShoutOut:
100** Their name is a one to ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''.
101** The opening of the "One For the Radio" music video recreates the opening scene of ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', with Danny turning up the power and volume of a giant amp, then it overloading in power when he strums on his guitar, sending him flying backwards.
102** The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8wcYrqIzhg 5 Colours in Her Hair]] contains Shout Outs to Music/TheBeatles and Music/TheBeachBoys.
103*** The song itself was inspired by the British Dramedy ''As If,'' specifically the character Suzanne 'Sooz' Lee.
104** In the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mUFbdW0XwY All About You]], the security guard (Played by [[Series/HarryHillsTVBurp Harry Hill]]) wears a badge saying "I'm a Music/{{Busted}} fan". Coincidentally, the video was filmed on the same day Busted announced their split.
105* SplashOfColor: In the music video for "Five Colours in Her Hair", everything in the titular girl's house is greyscale except the girl herself.
106* StudioChatter: The end of "5 Colours in her Hair".
107* TheSomethingSong: "The Last Song", "This Song"
108* {{Supergroup}}: Matt and James from Busted joined them to become [=McBusted=] from 2013-2015.
109* UranusIsShowing: "Star Girl" includes a reference to Uranus, everyone's favourite planet.
110-->''"There's nothing on Earth that could save us, when I fell in love with Uranus"''
111* VocalTagTeam: Tom and Danny, though Dougie gets in on it in some songs, and they have individual songs where they're the only ones singing lead as well.
112%% * WildTeenParty: 'Saturday Night'.
113* WholesomeCrossdresser: The "Transylvania" video features the entire band (Though it specifically focused on Dougie) wearing [[PimpedOutDress fancy]] [[GorgeousPeriodDress Period Dresses]], nightgowns and [[http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q259/jellyheaddimbulb/McFly/Untitled.png wigs]].
114* WolverinePublicity: In the UK, most of the publicity for ''Just My Luck'' was based on the fact that [=McFly=] were starring in it. They weren't even major characters.

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