Take That… Back For Good?
In the early 90s when Manchester was producing some of music’s most-talked-about groups, such as Oasis, The Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses, a manager named Nigel Martin-Smith had decided that the pop charts needed a severe injection of fun. Martin-Smith auditioned prospective stars and assembled a line up of five working-class boys from the North West of England.
Gary Barlow (19), Howard Donald (21), Jason Orange (19), Mark Owen (16) and Robbie Williams (16) completed what was to become the now legendary Take That.
Take That had a total of eight number one hits in the UK singles chart and the success of the band as both an act and a formulaic format inspired a cycle of manufactured pop acts that came to dominate the UK music industry of the next decade, including East 17, Boyzone, 5ive, Blue, Westlife and A1.
Their first single was "Do What You Like". The promo video featured the band getting naked and smearing jelly over themselves. At this......
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