At the end of 2004, Busted were involved in the UK Number One Christmas single, Band Aid 20's " Do They Know It's Christmas?

* Busted At Oz LP ( Autumn Records, 1981 )

The group left Epic after the disappointing sales of " Busted " – to sign with Warner Bros. Records.

Jones met Tom Fletcher when he auditioned for the " boy band ", V, ( an act that he had mistakenly perceived as similar to the band that Busted would become ); Fletcher, who was filming the auditions for Island Records, later approached Jones.

Further hits followed on Ovation Records with " High And Dry " ( 1978 ), " On Business For The King " ( 1979 ), " Blue Ribbon Blues " ( 1979 ), " Out Of Your Mind " ( 1979 / 1980 ), " What I Had With You " ( 1980 ), " Shotgun Rider " ( 1980 ), " Bombed, Boozed, And Busted " ( 1980 ), and " Ready For the Times to Get Better " ( 1980 ), an innovative re-make of Crystal Gayle's 1978 No. 1 hit.

Other celebs to have been featured in their own strips include Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Esther Rantzen, Stephen Fry, Noel Edmonds, Jimmy Savile ( as the headmaster of " Pop School ", as " Sir Jimmy Savile, the Owl " and in " Jimmy Savile's Haunted Head "), Johnny Vaughan, Adam Ant, Jimmy Hill, Noddy Holder, Boy George, Freddie Garrity, Steve McFadden, Morrissey ( constantly finding daffodils stuck into the seat of his trousers, parodying his appearances on Top of the Pops ), Busted, Eminem, Big Daddy and plenty more.

* James Bourne ( b. 1983 ), member of pop rock band Busted and pop punk band Son of Dork

During a TV appearance ( select MTV ), Geri Halliwell was a guest host on the show that week, Fitzgerald's sister Neeley called into the show and plugged her brother's band Busted and explained that they were about to sign a recording contract.

Travis McGee lives on a custom-made 52-foot barge-type houseboat dubbed The Busted Flush ( after the poker hand, in memory of the game enabling him to win it ), docked at Slip F-18 at Bahia Mar Marina, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

* Charlie Simpson, Musician in Busted ( 2002 – 2005 ), Fightstar ( 2003 – Present ) and as a solo artist ( 2011 – present ) ( Meadhurst )

It is popularly performed by beginning bands as well as performed by many popular and well-known artists such as: Adele ( 2008 ), Billy Ray Cyrus, Busted, Johnny Rivers, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Bob Dylan, Brian Kennedy, Steel Pulse, Roberto Jordan ( Spanish version " La Chica De Los Ojos Cafes "), Green Day ( played live ), Lagwagon, John Anderson, El Chicano, Busted, The Black Sorrows, Ronan Keating, Reel Big Fish, Joe Camilleri, and Joe Stampley.

The Deep Blue Good-by introduces readers to McGee, his place of residence, the Busted Flush ( a houseboat he won in a poker game ), and its mooring place, slip F-18 at the Bahia Mar Marina in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

In the episode " Krusty Gets Busted " ( Season 1, Episode 12 ) he declared " I've based my life on Krusty's teachings " and sleeps in a room filled with Krusty merchandise.

Kent Brockman first appeared on television in the first season episode " Krusty Gets Busted ", which originally aired April 29, 1990.

He began his career as a sidekick on Krusty the Clown's television show, but after enduring constant abuse, Bob attempted to frame his employer for armed robbery in " Krusty Gets Busted.

Busted was released in 1990 and was also produced by Richie Zito, as the band attempted to capitalize on the success of Lap of Luxury.

This led to him becoming a member and main songwriter for his own band McFly, whom Busted invited on their UK tour in early 2004.

Fletcher also co-wrote songs with Bourne which featured on both Busted albums.

Busted finally signed with Universal Island in early 2002 with Dom Kimberley ( DY8 ) as occasional drummer, but they employed a number of session musicians to fill the role on stage and in the studio in his absence.

The band was launched in August 2002, making their first appearance on the cover of Smash Hits with the headline: " Meet Busted: They're Going to Be Bigger Than Rik Waller!

The band embarked on another sell-out tour that November, and Busted gained a record of the band to play the most consecutive sellout dates at Wembley Arena, eleven nights.

Bourne is currently on tour around the UK performing past songs that he's written, including music from both Busted and Son of Dork.

McPhail and Doyle claimed that they had been forced to give up their rights to a number of songs by signing a contract which gave up any rights they had in the four songs, that later went on to be major chart singles for Busted and then The Jonas Brothers.

Hiaasen specifically acknowledged his debt in an introduction he wrote for a new edition of The Deep Blue Good-By in 1994, commenting that even though MacDonald was now eight years gone, he believed McGee was still around, probably sipping gin on the deck of the Busted Flush and pondering whatever it was that Florida had become or was becoming.

A brand new edition was broadcast on Saturday 25 September 2010, a ' School Days Special ', featuring Alice Cooper and Busted.

She also went on a nationwide tour supporting Busted.

They also covered " Busted " by Sick of It All on the Our Impact will be Felt tribute album.

Despite their success, Busted split on 14 January 2005 after just three years, following Simpson's decision to leave the band to concentrate on his side project Fightstar.

In 2005, Jo Dee Messina released " My Give a Damn's Busted ", which Diffie co-wrote and originally recorded on In Another World.

" Krusty Gets Busted " is the twelfth episode of The Simpsons < nowiki >'</ nowiki > first season, and originally aired on April 29, 1990.

The script for " Krusty Gets Busted " called for James Earl Jones to voice Bob, but the producers instead went with Kelsey Grammer, a cast member on Cheers at the time.

At the conclusion of the Oz obscenity trials in the UK, the defendants had their heads shaved by the police, causing public outcry.

Children's author and playwright L. Frank Baum referred to a seat in this passage of his novel Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ; “ At once a little girl rose from her seat and walked to the door of the car, carrying a wicker suit-case in one hand and a round bird-cage covered up with newspapers in the other, while a parasol was tucked under her arm .”

At least at one point in his life, Baum stated that he considered The Patchwork Girl of Oz " one of the two best books of my career "— the other being The Sea Fairies.

At the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy explains to Glinda that she must return home because her aunt and uncle cannot afford to go into mourning for her because it was too expensive.

At the end of the sketch, his mom ( Frank Oz ) enters his room to kiss him goodnight.

At the conclusion of the tour, Frank Oz rejoined the company.

At the beginning of this story, it is made quite clear that Dorothy, the primary protagonist of many of the previous Oz books, is in the habit of freely speaking of her adventures to her only living relatives, her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry.

At the age of nine she starred as Dorothy Gale in the 1910 short film The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

At first, Tip is shocked to learn this, but Glinda and his friends help him to accept his destiny, and Mombi performs her last spell ( although there is some evidence that she performed magic later on in The Tin Woodman of Oz ).

At the story's conclusion Tip is crowned King of Oz.

At the conclusion of the trial, the " Oz Three ", defended by John Mortimer, were found not guilty on the charge of “ Conspiracy to deprave and corrupt the Morals of the Young of the Realm ,” but were convicted of two lesser offences and sentenced to imprisonment.

* At the end of Ozma of Oz, before Ozma sends Dorothy to Australia by using the magic power of the Nome King's Belt, Ozma agrees to check on Dorothy each Saturday morning to see if she wishes to return to Oz.

At the beginning of Rinkitink in Oz King Kitticut and Queen Garee, the son and daughter-in-law of the victorious king are introduced.

In David Lynch's " Wild At Heart "-a film drenched with " The Wizard Of Oz " references, there is a character based on the good witch Glinda that bears a great resemblance to the " The Wizard Of Oz " film original character, portrayed by Sheryl Lee.

At the turn of the 20th century, his family left Lithuania due to growing antisemitism ( Amos Oz tells that the reason for leaving was his grandmother's health ) and settled in Odessa where her closest family lived )

At the opening of Ozma of Oz, Dorothy Gale is sailing to Australia with her Uncle Henry when she is washed overboard ( in a chicken coop, with Billina the yellow hen ), and lands on the shore of Ev — a rare instance in which an outsider reaches the Oz landmass through non-magical ( or apparently non-magical ) means.

At the time of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the lands in the North, South, East and West of Oz are each ruled by a witch ; the Witches of the North and South are Good, while the Witches of the East and West are Wicked.

At the Emerald City, during a victory celebration, Dorothy spots the girl who had helped her escape the hospital in Kansas named Princess Ozma, Jack's long-lost creator and the rightful ruler of Oz who had been enchanted into a mirror by Mombi.

At his primary school, St Margaret Mary's School, he was encouraged by a teacher named Miss Keller, who cast him as the Scarecrow in a school production adapted from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz when he was 11 years old.

At Los Angeles's Majestic Theatre, he played the romantic lead Private Jo Files in L. Frank Baum and Louis F. Gottschalk's musical, The Tik-Tok Man of Oz in 1913.

When the latest MGM Grand opened on December 18, 1993, it was owned by MGM Grand Inc. At that time it had an extensive Wizard of Oz theme, including the green " Emerald City " color of the building and the decorative use of Wizard of Oz memorabilia.