{"id":814829,"date":"2026-10-26T22:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814829\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T22:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:32:18","slug":"busteds-james-bourne-says-hero-brother-saved-his-life-with-kidney-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814829\/","title":{"rendered":"Busted’s James Bourne says ‘hero’ brother saved his life with kidney donation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The guitarist, vocalist and songwriter shot to fame with Charlie Simpson and Matt Willis in Busted in the early 2000s, and the trio had hits including What I Go To School For, Year 3000 and Crashed the Wedding.<\/p>\n

They scored four number one singles in the UK before splitting up in 2005. In 2013, Bourne and Willis teamed up with McFly to make McBusted, before Simpson rejoined Busted for a full reunion<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n

Bourne has written songs for McFly and 5 Seconds of Summer, and also fronted his own band, Son of Dork. He recently released the music from his stage musical Murder at the Gates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The guitarist, vocalist and songwriter shot to fame with Charlie Simpson and Matt Willis in Busted in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}