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TAKE That are celebrating yet another record-breaking week.
And they have promised fans they ain’t seen nothing yet.
I was with the kings of pop in Paris to launch brilliant new album The Circus, which scored the biggest first day sales of 2008 on Monday.
And with albums flying off the shelves, the classy collection looks like outstripping the mammoth sales of predecessor Beautiful World.
But while the lads were a picture of blushing modesty in my presence, they confessed that ruling the Top 40 and a monster sell-out stadium tour were actually part of a grand masterplan all along.
Gary Barlow, 37, revealed: “We wrote the album with stadiums in mind.
“We imagined how it would be to sing the songs on stage at Wembley before we even started writing.
“We thought now was the time to do it.”
The Circus has trounced Britney’s new album, also called Circus, this week by shifting more than 133,000 copies in just one day and Gaz is on top of the world.
Surrounded by swooning French lasses and British girls who’d been lucky enough to bag tickets to the posh VIP bash, he added: “I feel like we will never be bigger than we are now – this is it.”
That’s good news for their rivals. But personally I think TT have the ability to grow further if they continue making cracking pop albums like The Circus.
lt was a double celebration for Mark Owen, who was still toasting the arrival of his new daughter Willow.
I clinked champers glasses with the pop cutie, 36, after the lads had wowed on stage with a trademark charismatic performance.
Proud Mark beamed: “If someone had told me a few years ago we’d be back with another hit album and I’d have two kids I’d never have believed them. It’s brilliant – we are so lucky.”
I don’t think luck has anything to do with it, lads.
Jason Orange has finally conquered his fear of failure.
The 38-year-old got so jittery he nearly bailed out of Take That’s initial reunion press conference and got the wobbles on tour.
Reformed Jay told me: “I’ve really got over my nerves. I used to panic before everything we did but now I just go with the flow. It is what it is.”
Pleased to hear it mate.
Howard Donald isn’t looking forward to the festive season.
While most of us gorge on mince pies, turkey and all the trimmings once, the 40-year-old has to stuff himself silly twice.
He explained: “I’m doing two Christmases so I can be with both my daughters, Grace and Lola. It’s going to be a bit full-on.”
I’m sure the six-pack won’t take long to fix.
It’s official – Take That are the biggest band in the UK.
By the end of next year they will have performed to more than two million fans since their comeback in 2005. Next year’s sell-out stadium jaunt has become the fastest-selling tour of all time.
These shows, combined with their Ultimate and Beautiful World tours, will see the boys playing to more people than any other UK act this century.
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http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/...ashes-records/
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GARY BARLOW is leading a secret life away from the luxury of a chart-topping pop star.
When Gaz isn’t grafting with TAKE THAT or looking after his two kids, he is lurking at the back of dingy music venues around London looking for the next, well, Gary Barlow.
I revealed last month that he has started his own management and publishing company to nurture future chart stars.
And when the lads took me to France this week for the launch of their latest album The Circus, Gaz discussed his secret passion for talent-hunting for the first time.
He told me: “I am at a lot of gigs, me. I go to The Dublin Castle, Boogaloo, The Bedford.
“I don’t wear a disguise but I’m up the back keeping it low-key. It’s mostly in London. Now and again I am in Manchester. I work with our tour promoter on a lot of the scouting.
“We do three things — publishing, management and we sign acts to Universal. I love all that stuff. It is my future.
“I don’t want to be SIMON COWELL but I will do what he has done but my way. He goes for people he thinks he can make into something, I try to find people who are already something.”
A great example of that is Wembley rock singer/songwriter Gary Co, who he has signed, says Gary.
“He has produced and written everything himself. I love that. It makes me better. I sit and work with them and see what it is they are doing.”
But Gary — who last month gave X Factor finalists a masterclass with bandmate MARK OWEN — can’t see a future for himself as a smug talent-show judge spouting off about endless woeful renditions of the band’s 1995 chart-topper Back For Good.
He said: “I can’t see myself being an X Factor judge. Being down there the other week was weird.
Nervous
“You walk out there and Cowell’s just looking at you. It puts you on edge straight away. How those kids must feel every week. It’s nerve-wracking. I’d be bloody nervous.
The truth is, I wouldn’t have got through if I had tried. It’s terrible.”
But he did have some thoughts on BRITNEY SPEARS’ X Factor disaster on Saturday night — in which the pop princess mimed her single Womanizer on the live talent contest.
“I was not impressed,” he said. “But I don’t know what everyone was expecting.
“I have seen her on TV before doing exactly that. Why did we expect her to do anything different? It’s gone.”
If any band is qualified to pass comment, Take That are up there.
Gary, Mark, HOWARD DONALD and JASON ORANGE have just enjoyed the most incredible sales of their career.
The Circus has shifted a whopping 134,000 copies after ONE DAY on shop shelves and will easily eclipse the 200,000 first-week sales managed by Sunday’s No1, Day & Age by THE KILLERS.
Take That have a great chance of beating COLDPLAY to the title of fastest-selling album of the year – Viva La Vida sold 302,000 in its first week.
And the boys were in the mood to celebrate on Monday night. They knocked back vodkas and danced with fans after a showcase in Paris.
They played some new tunes from the album, including Greatest Day and Julie, which will be a surefire hit with Mark on lead vocals.
The best thing about the lads is that they still seem stunned about their success second time round.
After their sell-out tour next summer, they will have cemented their place in British music history as one of the best bands this country has ever produced.
Once that is done, Gary should have more time to find the next band capable of beating their incredible pop CV.
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I was gonna put all my favourite lyrics from each song in my sig,but I liked nearly the whole song for HUAL so got a banner! It's my favourite.
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