09 September 2009
Newsdesk
MCFLY have revealed that they have to thank public transportfor helping them make it as a band.
The boy band- consisting of lead singer and guitarists Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones, bassist Dougie Poynter and drummer Harry Judd - said they a huge amount of their success to travelling on buses and trains.
Danny said: "When I was 16, when I first got in the band actually, I used to travel down to London on Virgin trains from Manchester to London. It would give me time to think and reflect and write some lyrics.
"Also, if you travel with busses, you never know what you're going to find. I basically found a purse with lots of money in, handed it into the police, got it back two weeks later.
"There was £1,200 in there...I used it to buy my first guitar, my first decent acoustic. I still use it today!"
Drummer Dougie added that they are not the only band to use long journeys to their musical advantage.
He explained to eco-charity Global Cool: "Well, I've never written a song while I'm on public transport, but apparently George Michael wrote that song 'Guilty Feet' on a bus while on his way back from school or something."
