The main question is, what is there left to learn? <\/p>\n
We all know the story: Take That were five plucky northern lads, formed in 1990 around the songwriting talents of bow-tied lounge singer Gary Barlow.<\/p>\n
Initially called Cutest Rush, then Kick-It, they were marketed at gay audiences, with a notorious video for early single Do What U Like, featuring the quintet butt-naked and writhing around in jelly.<\/p>\n
But it was teenage girls that made their career, screaming songs like Everything Changes, Relight My Fire and Pray to the top of the charts. <\/p>\n
But as their fame grew, tensions simmered. Barlow refused to let his bandmates contribute to the music, leaving them feeling “like backing dancers and puppets”, says Howard. <\/p>\n
Fed up, Williams started abusing drink and drugs, almost overdosing the night before the 1995 MTV Europe Awards. <\/p>\n
When the others issued him with an ultimatum, he walked out. But without his puppyish energy, Take That were on borrowed time. Within a year, the band was over.<\/p>\n
One of the few revelations in the new documentary is that Williams’ departure gave his bandmates a new perspective: You don’t have to do everything you’re told.<\/p>\n
“We were like, ‘Oh, hang on a minute, that looks quite refreshing’,” recalls Barlow. <\/p>\n
But it wasn’t. <\/p>\n
As Williams solo career went stratospheric, Barlow’s became a punchline. <\/p>\n
“It was just so excruciating [that I] just wanted to crawl into a hole,” he recalls. At one point, he refused to leave the house for a year, ballooning to 17 stone.<\/p>\n
Howard Donald also took it hard, at one point contemplating suicide.<\/p>\n
“I decided to go to the Thames… I was seriously thinking of jumping in,” he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The main question is, what is there left to learn? We all know the story: Take That were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-392782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}