One Direction: This Is Us

When I was small, I had a desk.

It was weird, because I wrote on it, "When I grow up, I wanna be a singer."

I, like, scribed it in. And it's still on the desk.

Life at home was my dad, mom and my three sisters.

You could say I had a heavy woman influence

from a young age.

We lived in a tiny house.

I used to have a little bed in my mum and dad's room.

I used to sit on the windowsill and imagine things like winning the lottery.

When I was little, I knew that I wanted to entertain people.

I was a proper show-off.

At school, I was always trying to play the class clown.

I've always been that guy that made people laugh.

I used to get kicked out of class for singing

Irish traditional songs at the back of geography.

I could always hear my sister's music at the top of the stairs,

and I used to pretend to have a guitar

and I'd perform in my mirror in my bedroom.

I wasn't really interested

in things that other kids were interested in.

They were interested in football

and I was more creative.

Wherever I went, my dad seemed to tell people that I could sing.

It'd be like 2, 3 in the morning

and I'd be singing full power at the top of my voice.

My sister'd be banging on the wall, going:

"Shut up, you can't even sing. Go to sleep."

- Three, two, one. - We push!

That was kind of, I guess, where the dream started.

Oh! What'd you do that for? Ooh.

O2 Arena, welcome to the Take Me Home tour!

London, are you ready?

Sing!

One Direction! One Direction! One Direction!

British boy band One Direction

has arrived

to the frenzied screams of fans.

Security was needed to control hundreds of fans.

One Direction is taking over

the music world one country at a time.

One Direction. One Direction.

One Direction.

One Direction.

One Direction.

They're number one here in Australia. Number one in the U.S.

One Direction are number one

in more than 35 countries.

Even the Beatles never achieved such transatlantic success so early

in their careers.

It's happened so, so quickly.

It's not just unusual...

it's unprecedented.

1D definitely set the pace for 2012,

selling out their entire 2013 arena tour in mere hours.

The group was forced to add even more dates

after selling out an impressive six days at London's renowned O2 Arena.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Now I'm feeling good.

It's nerve-racking

being here now though, and actually seeing, like,

where you're actually playing.

Like, I sat here the other week watching Kanye West play.

And now we're here.

I just feel a bit nervous.

All right, fellas, let's start.

So first day of rehearsals.

They've done

the same choreography the last two years. Now I'm changing it.

Heads, Will!

Ha-ha-ha. - Should we start?

Louis, you're on that X.

I was never really a fan

of boy bands before One Direction.

I'm a massive boy band fan myself. Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC.

When people say, "You're in a boy band,"

I'm like, "Yeah, I am, but I'm in a cool boy band."

So I'm like, "Okay, whatevs."

Right from the start, we were always very vocal

that we couldn't follow the boy band stereotypes.

Choreographed dance routines, and everything's the same.

Here we go!

Go, Niall!

Taking the crowd with you!

Love the stag. Keep the stag.

Really good, like that. Keep that in.

Paul, our choreographer, gets bored, I think.

Niall, up that ramp.

Harry, come on!

It's a free-for-all.

They hate dancing

with a passion

and it goes to a whole sort of different level.

Can we just put that in? Some point in the--

That's the dinosaur.

It's a bird pecking the sea.

No, the bird, you dance out here, and the dinosaur's this.

I love how we basically take the piss out of dance moves.

And the winner:

Zayn Malik.

Okay, from the top.

When you go on tour,

the outfit you've got's the outfit you're stuck with,

so I'm gonna be wearing these clothes for a good eight months now.

Is this working?

Can you get in?

I feel weird wearing a trench coat.

It's the Harry Styles look.

It looks good. You look like one of those adverts.

You do though.

There's been times

when they've dressed us all in the same clothes

and we're like, "No, we can't do that."

This is the:

"I'm gonna rob your nan" look.

This T is bad, though. I like this T-shirt.

Is it not happening?

They're a bit tight. I just wanna see for the look.

Oh, my God.

We have to be our own people.

I don't think this band would've worked if we wasn't,

because as soon as someone tries to tell us

what to do...

Now do a normal one, please, honey.

It's like having five rowdy boys in a class at school.

Honey, please.

Harry.

Come on. Harry.

Harry, come on,

we've got so much to do today.

Please, my darling. Yeah, thank you. Love you.

Come on, now.

Harry. Ha, ha.

One, two. Here we go.

Boys, start in places.

Liam!

Yeah.

We've got six days here before the show at the O2 in London.

We've got a lot to do in six days.

Just now learning timing of everything.

When we're going on, when we're coming off.

Standby, ready to go.

Where everyone's meant to be

at different times.

Steep staircase, these.

The main thing for me is the stairs.

I'm telling you. Whoo!

Them stairs are steep.

They're really scary stairs.

I have actually fallen over in a show before.