The gig was an 11th-hour opener for the Nickelodeon-created boy band Big Time Rush on the latter’s sold-out “Better With U” tour. One Direction had just released “What Makes You Beautiful ...

Niall Horan—who was in One Direction alongside Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and the late Liam Payne—revealed he ...

Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Nickelodeon It may have been a boy band fan's dream come true that One Direction and Big Time Rush once teamed up for a tour, but it wasn't so easy for BTR at the time.