One Direction and Simon Cowell have a whole lot of history. The founding members of the boy band — Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson — initially auditioned for The ...

Phillip Phillips and the rest of Season 11's Top 10 take a page from the Simon Cowell songbook and sing "What Makes You Beautiful" by "X Factor" UK's mega-successful boy band. By Fred Bronson American ...

If we had to pinpoint a moment when Nicole Scherzinger seemed destined for a job on The X Factor USA, it would probably be the moment she "discovered" One Direction on last year's UK series. Nine ...

Ten years ago today, July 23, One Direction created the universe. Read an excerpt from Maria Sherman's new book, Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS, about 1D's formation and ...

Flowers and tributes for One Driection's Liam Payne are left next to the Lady Wulfrun statue outside St. Peter's Collegiate Church on November 05, 2024. Getty Images Two months after Liam Payne’s ...

Fans didn’t know it, but One Direction released their last album with all five members in November 2014. With the record, tilted Four — a possible foreshadowing of what was to come — Harry Styles, ...

A bathroom figures significantly in the origin stories of at least two classic One Direction songs. The first will be familiar to any fan: Songwriter and producer Savan Kotecha was sitting on the ...

’90s babies might be quick to name a few of their own favorite boy bands, but it’s One Direction that captivated audiences in the last decade or so. Even since their split, they’ve remained relevant ...