FALL Out Boy is a pop-punk band formed in the early noughties in suburban Chicago.
Despite going on a years-long hiatus, the quartet eventually reunited and continues to rock on to this day.
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Who are the members of Fall Out Boy?
Fall Out Boy consists of four members: lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist and backup vocalist Pete Wentz, lead guitarist and backup vocalist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley.
In Trohman's memoir, None of This Rocks he recalled that Fall Out Boy was initially a project that he and Wentz started.
He met Stump randomly at a bookstore in Chicago and asked him to join as the main vocalist.
Meanwhile, Hurley, who has been friends with Wentz since they were teenagers, initially joined as a touring drummer before becoming the band's main drummer.
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When did Fall Out Boy become popular?
Fall Out Boy achieved underground success in 2003 after they released their debut album, Take This to Your Grave.
But they skyrocketed to worldwide fame in 2005 after the release of the album From Under the Cork Tree, with its lead single Sugar We're Goin' Down reaching number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
In 2006, the band was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards.
A year later, their third album, Infinity On High, topped the Billboard 200.
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Is the band still together?
As of this writing, Fall Out Boy is still together.
The band went on an indefinite hiatus in 2009, citing exhaustion as the key reason.
"We were being pushed too hard, we were working too often, and I think we had no grounding. There was no, 'This is where I live, this is my family, this is my house, here’s where I get mental health assistance, I take my medication this many times a day,'" Trohman shared in an interview with Kerrang.
"None of that stuff was happening, it was all just go go go, different places, different things, if you have to succeed you’ve gotta do this.
"And it got to a point where — I can only speak for myself here — but I thought, ‘I think we’ve succeeded… can we stop for a minute? I need to go to my house.'"
They reunited in 2013 with the release of the album Save Rock and Roll.
“This isn’t a reunion because we never broke up,” they said in a statement at the time.
“We needed to plug back in and make some music that matters to us. The future of Fall Out Boy starts now. Save Rock And Roll…”
The band has dropped four more albums since.
