Take That's Career

Take that were discovered in 1989 and lasted till 2006. They then decided to split up and got back together in 2006. Take that contains five band members - Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. Their album 'Everything Changes' was one of the best selling albums of the decade which was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Prize along with their Greatest Hits album. Robbie Williams left the band in 1995 as he thought he would be more successful without them. The other four stuck together and completed their world tour and released a final single before splitting in 1996.




Robbie williams decided to become a solo artist as he thought that he would be more successful this way and he also had disagreements with the management and band members. Robbie launched his solo career by releasing a cover version of George Michaels's 'Freedom' which reached number two in the Uk singles charts in summer 1996. He then brought out a debut album 'Life thru a Lens' which was released in 1997. Robbie was very succesful by himself and this was partly down to his song writer Guy Chambers. He made a very succesful single 'Angels' which was released as the albums fourth single and it became Williams' best seller in the UK.





In October 2010 a single was released called 'Shame' which had been sung by both Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow. This song marked the first time that both Barlow and Williams had performed together on a song since Williams left Take That in 1995. This song almost came across of a way of saying sorry to each other and that they wanted to forget the past.




 In May 2006, it was announced that the group would be set to record new material together. Their fourth studio album 'Beautiful World' was released in 2006 and was followed with the album 'The Circus' in 2008. The four piece were very successful, still without Robbie, they were scoring a string of chart hits across the UK and Europe while taking the number of records sold to 45 million worldwide. They went on and did their Circus Live Tour in 2009 just before Robbie decides to join back in 2010.




When Robbie reunited with the band in 2010 he was very excited and Gary Barlow and himself put the past behind them. To follow this in 2012 the band were annouced by Forbes the 5th highest earning music stars in the world. Reunited Take That stars sang to 60,000 people at Twickenham stadium in south-west London in aid of the Help For Heroes charity. They then began to record their last album which they did as the original five piece. Their album Progree was the first album feauturing Robbie since 1995. The album was released in November 2010.




Take That are still going now. They haven't done anything in a while but everyone was very happy when they decided to get back together in 2006. They went on and did a tour of them being reuinted which was a complete sell out. I actually went to it and it was amazing. The set was interesting and amazing and I'm not even that keen on Take That but it was a great experience.