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31: 245:(2006). Released in the UK on 23 October 2006, the song was the band's sixth number-one single in the UK, staying in the top 20 for two weeks. In 2009, the song was played in space to wake up the astronauts on the space station, with thanks to a successful 299:
style song written about falling in love with an alien woman so he decided to replace the "Good Night" lyrics with the new lyrics, hoping it would be a bigger success than the song he wrote in his dream.
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in a feature called "McFlyday". On the final Chris Moyles Show broadcast 14 September 2012 the band re-recorded the track with altered lyrics relating to Chris Moyles and BBC Radio 1.
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had, about falling in love with an alien woman. The song was originally called "Good Night", but the band felt the lyrics didn't fit. Tom had a dream about writing a massive,
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into "space" and testing out a variety of Don't-Try-These-At-Home type stunts, Later in that video Dougie is in a spaceship eating a floating on air malteaser.
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in front of a live, fan-based audience. The home footage featured the boys sending
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when he was 14 years old. The single also includes the first track from the
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The video featured home footage of the band at Danny's house in
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DVD. "Silence is a Scary Sound" was written by McFly bassist
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album, "We Are the Young". The song was inspired by a dream
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On 2 June 2008 McFly made a surprise guest appearance at
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Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
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Index


Single
McFly
Motion in the Ocean
Label
Island
Universal
Songwriter(s)
Tom Fletcher
Danny Jones
Dougie Poynter
Harry Judd
Jason Perry
Julian Emery
Producer(s)
McFly
Don't Stop Me Now / Please, Please
Sorry's Not Good Enough/Friday Night
McFly
Motion in the Ocean
Twitter
Tom Fletcher
NASA
Jason Perry
Julian Emery
Daniel P. Carter
Wonderland Tour 2005
Dougie Poynter
Motion in the Ocean
Tom Fletcher

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