According to NME, one of the easiest parts of One Direction’s early days was finding a name for the band, which Harry Styles takes credit for. During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning back in 2017, Styles revealed that he came up with the group’s name and that it simply stuck easily with his bandmates.
“I think it was me,” Styles said of coming up with the name One Direction. “I know they’re not here to defend anything else, but it was me,” he added, referring to former bandmates Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan. “I thought it sounded good. We threw around names for a little bit, and I honestly don’t know. I suggested it and everyone was like ‘Yeah we like that’ and then it kind of stuck, and that was what it was.”
During the interview, Styles admitted that he still has fond memories of his time in 1D, although there were reportedly some rocky moments. Previously, Horan confessed that the group’s first gig was one of the worst nights of his life. “We’ve refused to talk about it ever since … It was a disaster. We were just a joke,” he said. Meanwhile, members Tomlinson and Payne have admitted that they hated each other when the group was first formed, but later became great friends (via The Beat).
Meanwhile, fans still hold out hope that the group will reunite and record new music in the future.
