5 Colours in Her Hair

"5 Colours in Her Hair"
Single by McFly
from the album Room on the 3rd Floor
B-side	"Lola"
Released	29 March 2004 (2004-03-29)
Length	2:58
Label	Island Universal
Songwriter(s)	Tom Fletcher James Bourne Danny Jones Ben Sargeant
Producer(s)	Craig Hardy
McFly singles chronology
"5 Colours in Her Hair" (2004) "Obviously" (2004)
Music video
"5 Colours in Her Hair" on YouTube

"5 Colours in Her Hair" is the debut single by English pop rock band McFly. It was also the band's first UK number one. It stayed at the top for two weeks. The song was written by Tom Fletcher, James Bourne, Danny Jones and Ben Sargeant. The track is especially well known for its "Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo!" lyrics, played at the beginning and at the ending of the song. The CD and 7-inch formats features a duet with Busted singing a cover of the Kinks song "Lola".

Overall, it spent twelve weeks in the UK Singles Chart. It also reached number seven in Ireland. The song was inspired by Susan Lee, a character played by actress Emily Corrie in the TV series As If, who wore coloured dreadlocks.^[1][2] The music itself is indebted to 1960s surf and beat music. The song was also nominated for The Record of the Year in 2004, but finished in second place just one point behind the winner, "Thunderbirds / 3AM" by Busted.