Liam Payne's voice is the first one heard in the culture-shifting boy band One Direction's debut single: “What Makes You Beautiful” launches into a bouncy guitar riff, a cheeky and borderline ...

It’s not a typical boy band watch,” Keating said. The five-member group was put together by pop impresario Louis Walsh, who took out newspaper adverts to find Ireland’s first boy band.

They've sold north of 130 million records worldwide and became the first boy band to top the U.S. album charts in three decades. Singer Brian Littrell was a centerpiece of the band's success ...