Robbie Williams news from month: November, 2008

There’s nothing Take That fans would love more than to see the return of ex-member Robbie Williams. And today reconciliation seemed on the cards, when the singer was spotted at a football match with former rival Gary Barlow. The pair had waged a public feud after Robbie’s departure from the boy band in 1995, but these pictures show they have well and truly buried the hatchet.

Robbie and Gary answered questions from a Sky Sports reporter

Robbie chatted to Gary and his two children in the stands before the Arsenal match against Manchester United at London’s Emirates Stadium. The old friends laughed and joked around as they answered a few questions from a Sky Sports reporter, with Robbie even putting an arm around his pal’s shoulders. Read the rest…

Take That survived feuds and solo stumbles to top the charts again. Here they talk about Robbie, relighting the fire, and why success is sweeter the second time around.

by Alan Jackson/ Times Online

A pop track plays at bird-scaring volume as four men walk back and forth across a rooftop in downtown Los Angeles, singing to the sky. A helicopter circles noisily overhead, its onboard cameraman documenting their every move and expression. Here is the biggest and best of all Britboybands, the one that came back to be a man band, filming the video for Greatest Day, first single from a new album that by Christmas will be inescapable in British high streets and on radio. “Mad, this,” notes one ripe Mancunian voice in a moment of quiet between takes. Looking out across the expanse of asphalt and assessing the 30-storey drop to the street below (there’s no wall or barrier to prevent anyone just stepping off into infinity), three similar accents murmur their assent. But then the music starts up again and the helicopter prepares to swoop back in. Dutifully, Take That go back to work. Read the rest…