Take That

One of Britain’s most successful boy bands, Take That are an English pop group from Manchester, formed in 1990. The group currently consists of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen. The original line-up also featured Jason Orange and Robbie Williams.

Back in the 90s, they achieved unparalleled success, recording three albums which topped the UK charts: Everything Changes and Nobody Else and Greatest Hits. Some of their biggest hits from then include “Back for Good”, “Pray”, “Everything Changes”, “A Million Love Songs” as well as covers of “Relight My Fire” by Dan Hartman and “It Only Takes a Minute” by Tavares.

Their popularity was unsurpassed in Britain. But tensions started growing and Robbie Williams left the band in 1995. The group disbanded the following year after the four remaining members completed their world tour.

However, ten years later, after filming a 2005 documentary about the group and releasing a new greatest hits album, a four-piece Take That (without Robbie Williams) officially announced a reunion tour around the UK, called The Ultimate Tour. It was extremely successful and the group continued recording music. They released Beautiful World in 2006 and The Circus in 2008, both going to No.1. Some of the hits include “Patience”, “Shine”, “Rule The World”, “Up All Night” and “Greatest Day”.

Robbie rejoined Take That in 2010 for the band’s sixth studio album, Progress, the first album of new material to feature Take That’s original line-up since 1995. It became the fastest selling album of the 21st century and the second fastest selling album in British history. Singles from the album include “The Flood”, “Kidz” and “Love Love”.

In 2014, Jason Orange decided to quit the band and Robbie Williams decided to continue his solo career. The group, now as three, released their seventh album, III, in November 2014 and it became the band’s seventh number 1, with hit singles “These Days”, “Get Ready For It” and “Hey Boy”. In 2017, they released eighth album Wonderland, their first one since Take That & Party not to reach number one in the UK Albums Chart (it was held off by Ed Sheeran’s ÷, released a few weeks earlier), but which managed to debut at number 2. Singles from Wonderland are “Giants” and “New Day”.

Take That are also very renowned for their live shows.