One Direction bring Big Apple to a standstill
Boy band sensation One Direction brought part of New York to a standstill as thousands of fans turned out to watch them perform.
Fans camped out at the Rockefeller Plaza overnight – with some waiting there since Friday – to watch the boyband, which features Wolverhampton's Liam Payne, perform a free concert live on US TV.
The group used the performance, broadcast on NBC's Today Show, to confirm the release of a One Direction 3D movie in 2013.
Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock will direct the film. But before bringing part of the city to a standstill, band member Harry Styles revealed his bank card was declined when he tried to download the band's own album.
The 18-year-old attempted to buy a copy of Take Me Home just hours before the performance, but wrote on Twitter: "Soooo... I went to download our album this morning. And my card got declined. Hahaha!!"
The band made history in March as the first UK pop group to debut at No 1 on America's Billboard album chart with their first album Up All Night.
Payne, Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson are thought to have amassed a £26.33 million fortune since shooting to fame on The X Factor.
