# 5 Seconds of Summer: Hey, Let’s Make a Band!: The Official 5SOS Book

Collective work

This book is pretty much our official story so far. It really does only seem like last week we played our first gig in at the Annandale hotel in Sydney. Since then we’ve been given the opportunity to turn into the people and musicians we wanted to be.The people who gave us the opportunity were the fans. So this book is like a thank you. We want everyone to know the story of how four western Sydney teenagers picked up their instruments and dreamt of being one of the biggest bands in the world. There’s also some embarrassing photos of us dicking around and some facts that some of us didn’t even know. So we hope you enjoy it!Love cal, luke, ash and mike x

## Copyright

HarperCollinsPublishers 77−85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB

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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014

© One Mode Productions Limited 2014

5 Seconds of Summer assert the moral right to be identified as the authors of this work

All band photography courtesy of Liz Hemmings with the exception of Image1, Image2, Image5, Image10, Image13, Image20, Image27, Image36, Image45, Image62, Image70, Images74, Image80, Image96, Image129, back endpaper © Tom van Schelven

Illustrations and doodles on cover, front endpaper, Image9, Image21, Image48, Image99 by Rich Andrews; cartoon strip on Images 64, 65, 66, 67 by Chris Rowland

All textures and background images © shutterstock.com

While every effort has been made to trace the owners of copyright material reproduced herein and secure permissions, the publishers would like to apologise for any omissions and will be pleased to incorporate missing acknowledgements in any future edition of this book.

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Source ISBN: 9780007594894

Ebook Edition © September 2014 ISBN: 9780007594900

Version: 26-09-2014

THANK YOU!

This book wouldn’t have been possible without our amazing fans, who have got us where we are today. The ones who stand for hours on end to watch us play, the ones who would support us four dudes through thick and thin. You are our everything.

Thanks also to Matt Allen.

## Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

Part 1: Hey, Let’s Make A Band!

Part 2: Brand New World

Part 3: Out of Our Limit

Part 4: Another Day and I’m Somewhere New

Part 5: The Fans

About the Publisher