Want a free McFly album? Well, here’s a one-time offer for you - buy this week’s Mail on Sunday (20th July 2008) and you’ll find a copy of their new CD radio:ACTIVE bundled inside!

Copying Prince’s giveaway of his Planet Earth album, the scruffy-haired four-piece are taking this new approach to promoting their record since splitting with their record company (Island Records) earlier this year. And while we doubt it’ll be quite the event that the Purple One’s release was, we still applaud McFly for not toeing the record company line!

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Tom Fletcher from pretend rock band McFly has been lamenting the lack of credit people give to their amazing songwriting skills.

Apparently, if Guy Chambers had been the master craftsman behind such hits as I Wanna Hold You and The Heart Never Lies, the world and its auntie would be lining up to fellate him. However, because the songs were written by the four worst haircuts in pop, McFly get no Ivor Novello love.

According to Tom, who’s presumably had to double visits to his therapist as a result, “Someone once said to me that if Oasis had done ‘Room On The Third Floor‘ it would have been heralded as one of the greatest songs of all time. I said to them, ‘You could be right’.”

Well, in a world exclusive, we reveal the real reason that McFly’s songwriting doesn’t win any awards….

They’re rubbish.