Chords for McFly Breakfast show

It's 10 to 9.
It's been almost, would you believe, 20 years since McFly first burst onto the music scene as teenage heartthrobs.
I'm sure they're still heartthrobs.
They captured the attention of millions, of course.
A lot has changed in that time for them, but the hits are still coming.
Back with new music and a mission to save the guitar.
We'll get them to explain what that means.
We'll talk to them in a moment.
First, though, here's a reminder of some of their hits.
_ She's [Em] gone with a new [C] buffet.
_ [D] _ _ [C] _
Everyone [D] asks me, [B] who the hell [Em] is she?
[C] Carried over [D] by [G] tears in her hair.
_ It's [Db] _ obviously, she's out of my [F] league.
I'm wasting [Gb] my time, cause she'll never be [Eb] mine.
And I know I never will [Ab] be good enough for [Db] her.
It's all [Bbm] about you.
_ [Ebm] _ It's [Ab] all about you, baby.
It's [Bbm] all about you.
_ _ [Ebm] It's all [Ab]
about you.
[B] Shine _ _ [Abm] _
_ _ _ _ _ a [Ab] light on her.
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_ [B] _ _ For [F] this is happiness.
[G] Yeah, this is happiness.
[F] Yeah, this is happiness.
[Gm] I don't mind having this.
So this is happiness.
[Gm] Yeah, this is happiness.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ So Tom, Danny, Dougie and Harry join us now.
Good morning.
Good morning.
So you were looking at your haircuts and what, not enjoying it or looking back?
Well, that last song was during lockdown.
So what was a lockdown haircut?
It was a lockdown haircut.
What does that mean?
Did you do it?
Lack of haircut.
Oh, right. Yeah.
Was it, you didn't trust anyone to do it for you?
I just, we weren't allowed out of the house.
No, you could cut your own hair.
I cut my own hair.
Did you?
Yeah, and [C] my partner's.
Did you?
Not today.
[Ebm] Not today.
_ _ _ No, she could do it.
She was good.
Yeah.
Good job.
[E] Yeah.
All new skills. _ _
How are you all doing?
Doing really good, thanks.
What's this?
You split us up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, if you joined the band.
Well, the thing is you can't split us up.
Which is the better side, Naga?
Oh, your side, definitely. Yes, Roger.
_ Yes.
_ _ We're always this competitive.
_ _ _ Tell us about saving the guitar then.
What's all this about?
Well, saving the guitar.
Well, yeah, I feel like _ this album's been amazing to make, this single particularly,
because we've had, we've always kind of found it that we've almost chased radio a little bit too much.
And this is the first one that we've kind of been like, we've got our own studio in lockdown.
And that was the best thing we ever did.
And it allowed us to just [N] be a band, you know, again.
Because normally you go into a studio, you've got me and Tom and Dougie,
you'll write like _ _ on the acoustic guitars maybe, do the demo, and go into a studio.
Then you've got like kind of time to make this album.
Whereas this time we had our own space.
Yeah.
This time we had our own space.
_ And it kind of allowed us to be this kind of band that we've always been, you know.
Is the music better now, you're not, excuse me, chasing radio?
I'd say, yeah.
I think, as Danny said, like there's always that stress and pressure of being in a band,
of like what kind of music should we be doing.
But I think this time when we set out making this album,
we just decided let's just make the music that we want to do.
So did it change the dynamic of how you were making music as well,
knowing that you didn't have that formula _ to, not all the formula, but you know, the kind of tick box.
Yeah, and options are like limited when you make music.
But when we just stripped it back to our instruments, it just became a lot clearer for us.
And we were just writing songs, setting up as a band and playing.
And, you know, we decided as a band that that was the thing that was important to us.
And, you know, I think that night Tom went away, came back and was like,
I have this song, it's called Where Did All The Guitars Go?
And you wrote this on your steering wheel, if I remember correctly.
I had, yeah, I write when I'm driving my car.
So I live back there.
Can we just say, OK, we're watching BBC Breakfast, children watching, do not follow Tom's example. _
_ He didn't literally write it.
I'm not writing it.
When I drive, I don't have any music on and I sing and I speak out loud.
I come up with a lot of ideas.
It's the only piece I get when I'm on my own in the car.
And then do you find that you _ forget what you might have done half an hour ago on the journey?
Or does it stick?
I think the good ideas stick most of the time.
Or immediately I'll have to kind of send it to someone, you know, once I get to wherever I'm going.
But it was just interesting because we had this, we did this exercise where we wrote McFly on this whiteboard
and we had to write words of what McFly meant to us and what we wanted the album to be.
And we hadn't really written a song that, you know, really, really inspired us.
And the one common word was guitars.
And it was driving home from that kind of [Fm] exercise.
It's like a non-digital cloud.
A brainstorm.
[G]
Well, you spoke about it.
So let's take a look at the video.
This is the video and it's an exclusive [Bb] first look at Where Did All The Guitar Go? _
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_ [Bb] It's still [N] McFly, isn't it?
Yeah.
Where _ _ was that?
That is in our studio.
That's in the live room.
We gutted the studio and built a box _ and made a video.
Whose idea was that?
Mine.
_ _ _ And when you say we built a box, did you actually build a box?
Oh, hell no. _ _
Got someone who did.
Yeah, yeah.
What was their faces like when you said, right, the video is going to be in a box?
_ Very uninspired. _
_ Doug's like our creative director.
Doug comes up with a lot of the, yeah, like the vision for, you know, the artwork and the music video.
When have you kicked back?
_ Rarely.
_ _ I can't be bothered.
He kicks off.
It's his way.
They don't like the X-rated stuff. _
When we were talking before we started, Doug, you were saying that the other three have all got children and your children are growing now.
Yeah.
And as they grow, they kind of find out what dad does for a job.
I mean, how's that?
Yeah, it's great.
My kids love it.
Like, I'm sure the other guys would agree.
Last summer, they started coming to a lot of the festivals we were playing and, you know, my son has just got his guitar on the whole time listening to the new songs.
He's five.
He exclusively listens to McFly.
So I'm making the most of that until he realizes that.
Really?
Yes.
So you're narrowing his musical range.
When we're in the car, he's like, McFly only, dad.
You have to pick a McFly song.
Tom's kids, Cooper sings.
Tom's kids play guitar.
There's a new band coming in.
There is.
They all play.
It's great.
Yeah.
I think that's the thing with this album for us.
We want to, you know, be that gateway band.
We want kids to be inspired and pick up guitars.
And there's nothing better than seeing kids in our audience with their_
because a lot of our fans have kids now and showing them the way.
That's what it was like for me and Danny.
We both have videos of us when we were like five playing guitar and like playing our little toy guitars.
Like it started that young.
Inspired by whom?
All sorts.
Yeah, for me.
Well, my dad, mainly my dad played guitar.
So there was guitars around the house.
There was also a time though, and I make sure sound really old, because I played musical instruments as well, when you could do it in school.
And there's a lot less of that available because of funding issues, etc.
So it's kind of like encouraging parents as well as children to pick up an instrument and kind of take that on themselves.
Because if it wasn't for my mum getting me private guitar lessons, I wouldn't be doing what I did now, you know, and it wasn't in my_
exactly the same.
My school didn't really put enough effort into the creative side of it.
And it's sad.
How about you, Joggy?
They had a rock school at my school.
What?
Amazing!
So you had school of rock.
Did you not know this? What?
Yeah, he doesn't talk.
_ _ _ Perfect guest for the breakfast table.
Tell us about the rock school.
Yeah, yeah.
You just_
it was after school, you showed_
it was just guitars, drums and bass.
And that was where I_
and actually the teacher there was the guy who helped me with my learning the McFly songs when I was auditioning.
Really?
What's his name?
Alistair. _
Alistair.
I hope his name was Alistair.
_ My share-taker Alistair.
It's all thanks to Alistair.
You didn't know this?
Not a clue.
I did.
We learnt something new all the time.
Yeah, he came to_
because originally it was_
well, it was originally Tom, then Danny, then I joined and we were trying to find a bass player.
Dougie came to the studios and played with us and he_
when he left that day, he asked for our autographs.
Oh, that's really sweet.
Business man. _ _ _
So I've never_
yeah, we never let him forget that.
That's fantastic.
And did any of the other guys who were in rock school, did any of them go on to_? No.
No, they didn't. They failed.
_ _ I don't know.
No, no, no.
I'm sure they've gone on and done great things.
It's fantastic.
It's great you guys are all kind of back together and kind of owning it a bit.
A lot more, but just owning it in a different way and getting a different message out.
Thank you all for coming in.
Thank you.
Thank you.
OK, see if I can get the title right this time.
McFly's new single, Where Did All The Guitars Go?
Yes!
It's out now.
And the latest album, Power To Play, will be out [N] on the 9th of June.
Yeah, you're watching BBC Breakfast.
It is 8.59.
Woo-hoo! _ _ _