Crashed the Wedding’ kept Britney Spears and Madonna’s collaboration ‘ Me Against the Music’ off the Number One spot upon its release in 2003…

In 2023, Simpson won the fourth series of The Masked Singer as "Rhino", making him the first male winner in the UK. [31] After his victory, he released the EP Kifaru containing songs he performed on The Masked Singer. [32] Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. INTERVIEW: Fightstar". Yorkshire Evening Post. Archived from the original on 15 February 2009 . Retrieved 29 January 2009. Listening to Hotel California’. From my recent single ‘All The Best’. Whoop whoop! That’s easy to remember because I only wrote it around four months ago!”Busted announce reunion tour and new music for 2016". BBC News. 10 November 2015 . Retrieved 10 November 2015. Charlie Simpson – Busted. If Busted were the anti-boy band, Charlie Simpson was the anti-lead singer. The well-bred multi-instrumentalist (a direct descendant of Sir William Sterndale Bennett, no less), had enough of singing suggestive lyrics over pop-punk riffs after three years in the Brit Award-winning trio, & left in 2003. Fightstar, his deliberately emo post-hardcore spin-off band, followed, before he took up a solo career. The unthinkable happened in 2015, with news of a full Busted reunion the next year. | From George Harrison to Zayn Malik: the pop stars who left their bands - Music". The Telegraph. 28 January 2016 . Retrieved 10 March 2020. Everyone has been touched by the feeling of hope. It’s fascinating how the human psyche has the endless capacity for optimism as a mechanism for overcoming adversity. The effects of hope are like a powerful drug, and it’s inspired me to return to the theme time and time again in my lyrics. Fightstar end Island Records contract". Digital Spy. 8 September 2006 . Retrieved 8 September 2006.

In October 2014, Simpson announced that he would play a 13 date UK solo acoustic tour in January/February of the following year. [27] A lot of my friends were texting me about that, thinking it was me. Davina was really sweet about my stuff and Robobunny was very good apparently, so it’s a compliment.” Simpson has started working on a solo acoustic album, while Westaway and Haigh will be completing post-production on the bands film and working on some music videos. [25] Everyone has been touched by the feeling of hope. It’s fascinating how the human psychehas the endless capacity for optimism as a mechanism for overcoming adversity. Theeffects of hope are like a powerful drug, and it’s inspired me to return to the theme timeand time again in my lyrics.Busted Win Record of Year". Sky. Archived from the original on 15 July 2012 . Retrieved 27 July 2009. Charlie Simpson releases new EP after winning The Masked Singer Kerrang! Magazine. 20 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023. An ‘80s pop star covered ‘ Crashed the Wedding’? I didn’t even know that happened! Was it Chesney Hawkes?”

Hailing from Suffolk, Charlie Simpson began his musical career in 2001, gaining commercial and critical success with Busted and Fightstar before going solo. He is the recipient of two BRIT Awards, has performed to sold out arenas and headlined festivals across the UK. He embarked on a solo career in 2010 with two albums hitting Top 10 in the UK album chart. Charlie recently headlined a 2000-capacity sold out show at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum. With an uncompromising approach to creating truly honest music, 2022 is set to be a hugely exciting chapter for one of the UKs most celebrated voices.Y ou went from boyband pop-punk in Busted to post-hardcore band Fightstar to solo indie-folk and now you’re on a self-reflective tip. Any other genres you fancy turning your hand to that might surprise people? Charlie has also been involved in film scoring, stating in an interview that this was something he was keen to pursue later in his career. He wrote the score for an independent British film ' Everyone's Going To Die', which debuted at the SXSW Film Festival in March 2013. [ citation needed] Fightstar 'Be Human' (Search & Destroy)". The Fly. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009 . Retrieved 27 April 2009. So I spoke to Jordan [Fish] two weeks ago because we want to do a project together. We became buddies after doing Warped tour together years ago. So we’re trying to think of something we can do together, and I’m trying to think of something I can get him on. Which would be awesome!” Commenting on the premise and overall message of the album, the Busted and Fightstar says: “Everyone has been touched by the feeling of hope. It’s fascinating how the human psyche has the endless capacity for optimism as a mechanism for overcoming adversity. The effects of hope are like a powerful drug, and it’s inspired me to return to the theme time and time again in my lyrics.”