The band was put together on July 23, 2010 during season 7 of 'X Factor U.K.' and immediately took over the world Alexandra Schonfeld is a staff editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Nearly eight years after One Direction started their “hiatus,” the boy band’s fans have been gifted a never-before-seen video from one of their “The X Factor UK” performances. In 2010, Liam Payne, ...

Directioners got their chance to brush up on a bit of One Direction history. Saturday, July 23, marked the 12th anniversary of the iconic boy band, and to mark the occasion, The X Factor UK shared ...

One Direction’s Take Me Home is the year-end, last-chance hope of the record business. It’s aimed straight at the adolescent girls who swooned en masse over last year’s fusillade of compliments “What ...

The band was put together during season 7 of 'X Factor U.K.' and immediately took over the world John Shearer/Getty One Direction's domination of culture in the early 2010s was total, whether they ...