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One Direction doesn't have a lead member: 'Harry is not the boss'

Boyband One Direction doesn't have a leader according to songwriter Jamie Scott. 

He spoke to the Sunday Mirror about the lads, who are now recording and performing as a four-piece following the untimely departure of Zayn Malik back in March, and explained that they're all equal and have their own roles within the group:

"Harry is not the boss. I would say that they don't have a boss. If they did they wouldn't be together now because that boss wouldn't survive. They each have their roles."

Scott also opened up about Malik's decision to quit the band and admitted that he was just sick of constantly being on the road: "Zayn went because he'd had enough. Have you ever been on the road for four years? These guys aren't at home. There is no way the same thing is going to run through all five guys, that they're all going to want to be on the road so much together. Eventually he got to a point where he'd had enough."

"It was, "OK, I don't want to be in this band any more". It was that simple, it was human instinct kicking in. People want it to be complicated and have secret reasons but that is what it was."

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Watch Scott performing a rendition of 'Story Of My Life' below: