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 ...

For a few moments back in 2010, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson were failed talent-show contestants. But the U.K.’s The X Factor couldn’t let them go, and they ...

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 ...

One Direction formed in 2010 and they've been on indefinite hiatus for the last six years. Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, and Zayn Malik have gotten matching tattoos. Payne has a tattoo of ...

The band went on to take the world by storm, amassing one of the largest and most passionate fan bases, and releasing five albums. And despite Malik leaving the band in 2015, and One Direction going ...

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 ...