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 ...

Blimey, it's been one helluva good week for our December cover stars, One Direction. Their second album Take Me Home has went straight in at the No.1 position on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart with ...

One Direction found fame inside a nondescript North London TV studio, next to a McDonald’s and opposite a kebab shop — and I had a front row seat for the making of the world’s biggest boy band. Harry ...

It’s hard to think of a group in recent years that can hold a candle to the absolute pandamonium One Direction started in the early 2010s. They shut down cities, they unionized the internet 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 ...

There are few things in this world I love more than One Direction. Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson have brought me more joy over the years than I can express, ...

1D’s final album arrived on the same day as Bieber’s redemptive comeback in 2015. Their battle on the charts was nothing compared to the internal struggles they shared Purpose took the top slot with ...

On July 23, 2010, there was a ripple across the pond. During production of the seventh series of the U.K.’s The X Factor, five young lads—Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis ...

Even though One Direction has been on a band hiatus since 2015, the group’s influence on pop culture has remained apparent in the years following their break through their dedicated fan base and ...

’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 ...