This insightful biography tells the story of how it happened. It
Includes:: the secret writing & recording sessions which led to the official announcement of a new album & goes behind the headlines that said Robbie was to rejoin. & it also tells the whole story of the UKs best-loved boy b&. Take That are wiser since their mid-1990s split. Robbie Williams debut solo album Life Thru a Lens went to No 1 & he had a massive hit with Angels. But after an equally celebrated follow-up he began to hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. A Robbie-less Take That outdistanced him. The new album comes 20 years after the band first got together as young hopefuls under Manchester manager Nigel Martin Smith. Singer-songwriter Gary Barlow was 19 18-year-old Mark Owen had tried out as a footballer Howard Donald was a 21-year-old painter & Jason Orange was a 19-year-old decorator. With the youngest member Robbie Williams who joined at 16 they went on to sell more than 25 million records in their original incarnation
- becoming one of the biggest acts of the 1990s.