Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Gordon in the morning: Take a little of that

There's a photo on the front page of Bizarre online this morning, showing Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams embracing with the headline:

Shame it's not all five

It turns out this is a reference to the Take That reunion and not fingers.

Yes, after years of being gurning-me-worship free, slowly Take That are being recontaminated, as Gordon explains:
ROBBIE WILLIAMS and GARY BARLOW are heading back to the top of the charts with a new single, Shame.

It is, isn't it? A terrible shame.

Oh, hang on. That's what it's called.
The collaboration was written especially for Robbie's new album, In And Out Of Consciousness - The Greatest Hits 1990 - 2010, which is out on October 11.

I might have mentioned before how much I hate the 'new' track on a 'greatest hits' album, with the built-in assumption that the new track will tramp to the top of the charts, but in this case it's telling that Williams has fallen so far, so fast, they're needing to dust his best of with a little bit of Take That to make it palatable.

Still, as with every Williams release, Bizarre has fallen into the role of pretending that Williams is still the Angels Williams rather than the bloke who made Rudebox and... what was the last one called again?
The Soccer Aid match on Sunday - won by the Rest Of The World team which included MICHAEL SHEEN and WOODY HARRELSON - was an interesting barometer of Robbie's popularity at the moment.

When his name was called out 70,000 people gave the biggest cheer of the night.

Wow. A bigger cheer than that bloke from Cheers. Can you imagine?


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