Robbie Williams news from day: 2. November, 2008

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…