- published: 25 Oct 2009
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Take That are a British five-piece vocal pop group comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the lead singer and primary songwriter. In total, the group have had 27 top 40 singles and 16 top 5 singles in the United Kingdom alone, 11 of which have reached number 1, as well as having seven number 1 albums. Internationally the band have had 54 number one hits and 35 number 1 albums.
Take That's pop tunes and soulful ballads dominated the UK charts in the first half of the 1990s, winning multiple BRIT Awards while also spawning two of the best selling albums of the decade with Everything Changes (which was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Prize) and their Greatest Hits album. Williams left the band in 1995 while the four remaining members completed their world tour and released a final single before splitting up in 1996.
After filming a 2005 documentary about the group and releasing a new greatest hits album, a four-piece Take That without Williams officially announced a 2006 reunion tour around the UK, entitled The Ultimate Tour. On 9 May 2006, it was announced that the group were set to record new material together once again; their fourth studio album, Beautiful World, was released in 2006 and was followed up with The Circus, in 2008. The group achieved new success as a four-piece, scoring a string of chart hits across the UK and Europe while taking the number of records sold to over 45 million worldwide.
Up and down
I love a merry-go-round
You went your way, I went my way
Said you'll see me down life's highway
Not black or white
As chrystal clear as a cloudy night
Traveling in the name of lonely
I was only home when you held me
Yeah it's a hell, a hell of a time
To emerge from the shadows
Yeah it's a hell, a hell of a time
To come knocking at my door
And it's here,
Where I've come home to.
Right here
Everything I hold on to is here
All the things I keep so dear.
Flying home tonight
As far away as a satelite
Keeping your heart in my pocket
Hope to God that I don't drop it
Yeah it's a hell, a hell of a time
To emerge from the shadows
Yeah it's a hell, a hell of a time
To come bursting through my door
And it's here,
where I've come home to
Right here
Everything I hold on to is here
All the things I keep so dear
I hear
Oh what a time to come back
Oh what a time to come home
Oh what a time to come back
Oh what a time
Up and down,
I love a merry-go-round
You went your way, I went my way
Said you'll see my down life's highway
yeah it's a hell, a hell of a time
To emerge from the shadows
yeah it's a hell, a hell of a time
To come knocking at my door
And it's here,
Where I've come home to
Right here
Everything I hold on to
Is here
All the things I keep so dear I hear
Everybody's talking now
Everybody's walking 'round