Return of The Enemy

by Toydog16r

Its nearly 8 years since a terrible review hit McFly. But things are changing with the band and the girls. Danny and Angy's relationship is on the rocks while Bronwen and Tom struggle with the fallout of new realisations about her family. Can they survive

1. Chapter 1

The fifth anniversary of Curtis Lee

You are holding in your hands the third and (we promise) the last of three special issues commemorating the fifth anniversary of Curtis Lee. When we began planning these issues more than a year ago, we decided to use this milestone as an occasion to take stock of where we've been and where we are going.

It's been a huge undertaking, and we've interviewed more than 100 musicians, artists, leaders and thinkers, including two Rolling Stones, two Beatles and two presidents (Not Bush), not to mention scientists, comedians and philosophers, preachers and atheists. Our first issue looked at the figures that shaped the world the magazine came from and covered: musicians like Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger, politicians like Tony Blair, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama and troublemakers.

Our second issue was an in-depth exploration of 1967, the year of our sister magazines. Rolling Stone's birth.

This issue looks forward, not back, and it's packed with interviews with the artists, leaders and thinkers who can best divine what is best for our future. Where we stand in the future could define us: for these facts and figure shall tell us what our grandchildren will be. For this I turned to my old friend, and MP for Dublin, the Irish Catholic Sinead O'Brien.

We don't claim to have the answers to these challenges, but we do know where to look for leadership and inspiration. The values of tolerance, inclusiveness, common sense and personal liberty (not to mention fun) that took shape in the 1960's: these people inspired our magazine.

As we put this issue to bed, I would like to thank the extraordinary artists and thinkers who were so generous with their time. And a tip of the hat to our staff, especially executive editor and deputy managing editors Angharad Locke and our specialist political analyst Sinead O'Brien, who each oversaw one of these special issues and guided our dedicated editors, photo editors, fact checkers and copy editors through many hard day's nights.

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Bronwen John-Fletcher