FIVE COLOURS IN HER HAIR
Tom said: 'To begin with, we never thought this would be a first single. It was the first song Danny and I began writing together from scratch we'd been listening to a Beatles song and this one just sort of fell out.'

OBVIOUSLY
Get the hankies out McFly's second single is about 'hopelessly reaching for a girl who's out of this world'. The girl in question is going out with a man who is a) 23 years old, and b) in the Marines. So McFly disappear off to LA for two years to get over her. Why is being in the Marines better than being in McFly? Harry joked-'Being in the Marines creates an opportunity in life to express yourself as an artist. And as a performer. Artistic performance, I call it. You don't get that in McFly.' Tom added- 'All our lyrics are made-up stories with elements of real life wound in. It's best to write like that.'

ROOM ON THE THIRD FLOOR
When Danny and Tom were first in London, they stayed at London's Intercontinental Hotel. In a room on the third floor. Room 363, to be precise. Danny recalled- 'Staying at that hotel was brilliant for the first week. But when you're in a hotel room for two months, with both of you living in the same four walls, it can get a bit tedious. We got so bored that we ended up leaning against the walls with glasses, listening to other people's arguments.'

THAT GIRL
Tom recalled: 'James (from Busted) and I had just finished writing two of the songs which ended up on the second Busted album. But we knew this song wasn't Busted-ish and I'd just finished listening to the Beach Boys a friend gave me their greatest hits and I'd been playing it non-stop. It sort of defined the McFly sound really early on.'

HYPNOTISED
Dougie said: 'The song is inspired by the fact that Danny thinks he is immune to hypnosis. We're planning to book a hypnotist for an evening, purely for the sight of watching Danny behave like a fool. Danny would be the ultimately easy person to hypnotise.'

SATURDAY NIGHT
Danny explained: 'We opened with this song on the Busted tour. It has the line 'no-one here to check if you're underage' which is a reference to Dougie, who's still not old enough to order booze in a pub.' 7. Met This Girl Harry recalled: 'We were in the living room the night before this song was due to be recorded. The studio was booked for the following day, after we'd been to the Capital Radio Awards. The message had been made fairly clear: 'Finish this song or die'. So we finished it. Because Dougie and I were the last to join McFly, a lot of the songs were taking shape by the time we were in the band, and I wasn't a songwriter beforehand, so it was nice to be thrown in at the deep end here.'

MET THIS GIRL
Harry recalled: "We were in the living room the night before this song was due to be recorded. The studio was booked for the following day, after we'd been to the Capital Radio Awards. The message had been made fairly clear: 'Finish this song or die.' So we finished it. Because Dougie and I were the last to join McFly a lot of songs had taken shape by the time we were in the band and I wasn't a song writer beforehand so it was nice to be thrown in at the deep end here."

SHE LEFT ME
Tom said: 'I like this one and I have nothing else to add.'

DOWN BY THE LAKE
Tom explained: 'This is about the joys of young love and the benefits of getting together when daddy's not around, because the daddy in question doesn't like your new boyfriend. Nor does the boyfriend like the dad much, either.'

UNSAID THINGS
Tom said: 'This is all about unrequited love. Her fiancé is the same guy who's in the Marines in Obviously. A lot of our characters turn up at different points in the album.'

SURFER BABE
Written on their freezing hotel balcony, Tom laughed: 'For some reason James doesn't seem to feel the cold. So we were sat out in the wind and rain trying to write about girls in the hot Florida sun.' 12. Not Alone Danny said: 'This is one of the best songs I've written. I wrote it in my room at college when I was 16 I was bored and depressed, travelling to and from London all the time to see Tom, and I didn't know where everything was heading. At the same time, because I'm Catholic, I did feel that I wasn't alone. It sounds cheesy, but this song is a bit of me. Some of my influences are in there such as Bruce Springsteen and it represents what I bring to the band.'

NOT ALONE
Danny said: "This is one of the best songs I've written. I wrote it in my room when I was at college at 16 - I was bored and depressed travelling to and from London to see Tom all the time and I didn't know where everything was heading. At the same time, because I'm Catholic, I did feel I wasn't alone. It sounds cheesy, but this song is a bit of me. Some of my influences are in there - such as Bruce Springsteen - and it represents what I bring to the band.

BROCCOLI
Tom said: 'It's the coolest-ever name for a song. It's about a girl you've decided you'll cook for, but you're rubbish at cooking. Hence the 'virgin in the kitchen' line. Then while you're cooking, she calls you and blows you out. This is one of those songs we weren't sure about when we wrote it, then we slept on it and the next day it sounded great.