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Matt Willis

Taking a stance as scruffy, skate-boarding kids with a love of Blink 182, Busted became big stars in the early 2000s by adding spiky guitars and heavy riffs to bubblegum pop melodies. They scored four Number 1 singles and two platinum-selling albums before bushy eye-browed hearthrob Charlie Simpson left to find his musical destiny in hardcore metal act Fightstar. The band's break-up left bass player Matt Willis (a former student of the Sylvia Young Stage School) free to go it alone and he signed a solo deal with Mercury Records in 2005. Adopting a more mature, polished rock sound...