Busted
Entry updated 15 December 2025. Tagged: Music.
UK pop band formed by James Bourne (1983- ), Matt Willis (1983- ) and Charlie Simpson (1985- ), active 2000-2005 and 2015 onwards. One of their biggest hits, the cheerful pop-punk "Year 3000" (2003) was openly inspired by Bourne's obsession with Back to the Future (1985). A neighbour takes the band to the future in his car, which he has converted into a Time Machine. "Not much has changed but we live underwater", boy bands are still very popular, Busted have outsold Michael Jackson, and "triple-breasted women swim around totally naked", a Total Recall-inspired line that was decorously removed by the teen-friendly US Christian outfit The Jonas Brothers when they covered the song in 2006. [CWa]
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