Image copyright BMGPop group McFly have signed their first record deal since 2009, and will release a new album via BMG this year. "There was a strong possibility McFly would never happen again," singer Tom Fletcher tells the BBC. The four new tracks McFly play for the BBC instantly bring to mind the jangly positivity of Britpop - in the vein of The Boo Radleys' Wake Up Boo, or Dodgy's Staying Out For The Summer. "In hindsight, what we really needed was a break to realise how much we needed McFly," says Tom. "We've spent our whole adult lives being called Tom McFly or Danny from McFly - and part of you desperately wants to justify that that doesn't define who you are.

Source: BBC July 02, 2020 05:48 UTC