Charlie Simpson

Charles Robert Simpson born 7 June 1985 is an English singer songwriter and musician from Ipswich He is a member of the rock band Busted and he is also the lead vocalist and the rhythm guitarist in the British posthardcore band Fightstar AllMusic has noted that Simpson is perhaps the only pop star to make the convincing transition from freshfaced boy bander to authentic hard rock frontman Simpson is a multiinstrumentalist playing guitar bass keyboard piano and drums Simpson has achieved ten UK Albums Chart top 40 releases across his musical career five of which entered into the UK top 10 He has also had four number one singles with Busted and two top 20 singles with Fightstar Between Busted Fightstar and his solo projects he has sold over five million records worldwide winning two Brit Awards and being nominated for two Kerrang Awards In 2015 Simpson also released an EP with a side project called Once Upon a Dead Man alongside his two brothers Will and Edd Simpson and friend Simon Britcliff On 10 November 2015 Busted announced they would be reforming with Simpson back in the original lineup and would embark on an 18 date arena tour around the UK and Ireland The band sold 100000 tickets in the first hour of the tour going on sale Busteds third studio album Night Driver was released in November 2016 In 2018 Busted announced their fourth album Half Way There along with arena tour dates in March 2019 The album was released on 1 February 2019 and reached number 2 in the UK From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia