Before One Direction became One Direction, its members auditioned for the U.K.'s “The X Factor” separately. The judges decided to put five promising, but not yet excellent, boys into a group.
Liam Payne, a former member of the preeminent 2010s boy band One Direction, died on October 16 at the age of 31. In his short and fairly troubled post-1D career, he never fully slotted into his ...
How One Direction became the internet’s first boy band Before One Direction became One Direction, its members auditioned for the U.K.’s “The X Factor” separately.
One Direction called their fourth studio album Four. But the 2014 release also marked the end of the road (vintage boy band reference) for Zayn Malik. For the next album, the quintet recorded as a ...