Но теперь, похоже, исполнитель изменил свое мнение. Take That запланировали тур по 20 городам Великобритании и надеялись, что Уильямс поедет в концертное турне с ними. Но он неожиданно отказался. Робби утверждает, что возвращение в группу будет разрушительным для его сольной карьеры, поэтому Take That выступят без него.

Один из участников группы Jason Orange рассказал: «Он вернулся и сказал, что это для него неправильно. Теперь нет шансов».
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во всяком случае эти 3 темы токо и мелькают в нете. причем большинство заметок уже реально бородатые видать, писать пока нечего о Робби, да и наши ребятки уже в основном остепенились, не дают повод для сплетен. вот и пишут туда-сюда о совместном концерте

Jun 18 2009 By John Dingwall

BOY-BAND hysteria will hit Scotland when Britain's favourite pop act roll into town for the first of a hat-trick of shows at Glasgow's Hampden Stadium tomorrow night - but there will be no sign of the band's old mate Robbie Williams.

The Let Me EntertainYou singer has been told to forget all talk of a reunion and to knuckle down on finishing his own solo album.

And his former bandmate, Howard Donald, insists Robbie has given up on all hope of rejoining his old band and knows he will have to rekindle his own career without them.

Drawing a line under the Robbie rumours once and for all, Howard claimed that it was never really on the cards for Robbie to join the band.

"There has been all sorts of talk in the newspapers, but that's all it was," Howard insisted. "We know between us that he is a good friend. We respect that he is making an album and he respects our career, but everything is great."

The solo star's career had hit the doldrums in recent years and Robbie knows only too well that he would have benefited by association had he been given the chance to go onstage with Take That on any of their tour dates. It would have given him a captive audience of 1.2 million fans and would have been an enormous publicity coup.

But, as well as giving up on the idea, Howard says Robbie has finally come to respect his old band and has been told to buckle down and record a new solo album for release in October - giving him time to cash in on the lucrative Christmas market.

"Robbie has got his own career," Howard added. "We think he has an album coming out at the end of this year and we have this tour to concentrate on. There has been no time to see Robbie because we spent a very busy time in rehearsals and in dress rehearsals leading up to the show.We were getting the show together because we wanted it to be perfect for the fans."

The lads are playing not not one but three sell-out shows at Scotland's national stadium and Howard admits he is blown away by the level of success Take That have achieved.

"It really is incredible," he said. "To be honest with you, I lost track of how many shows we were playing in Scotland and when I saw that we were going to be in Hampden Stadium for three shows it really hit home to me just how great the fans in Scotland really are.

"It is quite unbelievable really to be playing three shows in the same stadium in Scotland in the one weekend. I have to pinch myself sometimes because it is hard to come to terms with the fact that we are even able to play stadiums. It's unbelievable."

Take That's biggest tour has seen Gary Barlow, Jason Orange, Howard Donald and Mark Owen deliver one of the most elaborate pop shows ever seen.

"We can't wait to get on that stage at Hampden," Jason agreed. "I just can't wait. It's going to be brilliant. It's the biggest tour we have ever done. It's a wonderful honour."

Fresh from Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, the lads hope to dazzle fans with their Circusthemed shows, which will see them performing acrobatic tricks and riding unicycles and include a huge hot-air balloon centre-stage, a giant circus tent, a high-wire, trapeze, and clowns handing out balloons.

The four-piece will dazzle on a £10million stage at Hampden, performing acrobatic tricks, in keeping with their latest chart-topping album, also called Circus.

And to make sure all their fans are catered for, whether young or old, Take That will be performing a selection of songs spanning their entire career - going as far back as their early 1990s hits to their most recent hit single, Said It All.

Fans of the band, which reformed in 2006, will arrive in their droves to catch their idols and support acts Gary Go and The Saturdays.

The fastest-selling show in UK pop music history boasts jugglers, trapeze artists and tight-rope walkers - and a set list including Take That classics, A Million Love Songs, Could it be Magic? and Shine.

A giant mechanical elephant and a 10.4mhigh puppet ringmaster sounds like the sort of stuff we might expect from Pink Floyd but not from a boy band, but Mark admits the band were determined to give their fans value for money.

"It's a big show, the biggest we have done," the 37-year old said: We think we've got a good set list and got the balance right."

At the start of the show, the stage will open up like the petals of a flower with the four members of Take That slowly rising up on a platform that gradually reveals itself to be balanced on top of the giant, 7.6m-tall mechanical elephant.

Then a section of the circular stage swings away and the elephant performs a full turn, blows some water from its trunk and begins to move.

The show was conceived by stage designer Es Devlin but it is down to Brilliant Stages project manager Clay Brock to make it happen. Brock, who has designed stage sets for Metallica, assembled a team of specialists, including structural engineers.

"The set designer dreams up these crazy ideas and has no idea how they're going to work," he admitted. "My job is to make sure we get it done on time and on budget with design intent. They wanted a puppet that leans forwards, holds out its hands and goes 'boo'. That was our creative direction."

"We had to do this earthquake scene for Metallica, where two pylons had to crash to the ground in two seconds," says engineer Andy Edwards of 3D Design, one of the specialists on the project. "Nobody else would touch it. It was a nightmare to do but we made it work.You do it on the basis of a gut feeling - you can do all the calculations, but you don't know if it will work until you try it."

The ringmaster puppet is constructed from five scissor lifts stacked one above the other. The one below the head has a cantilevered platform for the band to stand on. The scissor lifts are clothed with a body made from aluminium hoops joined with fabric that unfold as the puppet extends, like a jack-in-the-box.

After Sunday's third Hampden Stadium show, the entire set will take 37 hours to dismantle for the next show.

Howard said: "I think in the old days, when we are talking about the early 1990s tours, we danced and pranced around to choreography for every song. And we drank so much water onstage because of how much we were dancing and how much younger we were.

Now the whole show has been designed for a stadium tour which means everything needs to be much bigger and we need many more people and a bigger cast to make sure the stage doesn't look empty."
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Take That star Jason Orange has blasted former bandmate Robbie Williams for not joining the group on their comeback tours.

Jason, 39, said of the 35-year-old superstar: "The chances he'd ever come back now are pretty slim.

"He's had the chance to do it on sell-out tours and not made it back. I've got no idea what he's up to."

The 90's boyband, including Gary Barlow, 38, Mark Owen, 37, and Howard Donald, 41, has just completed a 20-date tour of seven UK cities - thought to be the fastestselling in British history.

It cost £50million to produce and was seen by 1.2million. But Jason admits he is struggling to adjust to normal life since it ended.

He said: "The tour exceeded all expectations.

"But going from playing to 55,000 a night to having lots of time off is a bit of a comedown. Now I go to the gym every day and I'm just Jay from Manchester."
http://www.people.co.uk/news....ge.html

Knebworth House owner Henry Lytton Cobbold – whose grounds have just hosted Sonisphere – challenged my fave manband to nab the record set by the Robster, 35, in 2003.

He said: “Robbie filled the place for three nights and smashed all box office records. We reckon Take That should do four nights.

“It would mark them out as the biggest UK pop group of all time.”
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlis....-Robbie

Madonna, Beyoncé, Mariah Carey and Robbie Williams are among the host of big names planning to record a charity disc of Jacko’s greatest hits.

Other world-famous acts taking part include Whitney Houston, Usher and Brit schoolboy sensation Shaheen Jafargholi, with legends Stevie Wonder, 59, Diana Ross, 65, and Lionel Richie, 60, also expected to lay down tracks.

The idea came about after a succession of stars sung cover versions of the singer’s hits at his memorial service. Producers are asking the stars to perform their favourite Jacko songs.

Mariah, 39, will sing I’ll Be There and Britain’s Got Talent star Shaheen, 12, who wowed fans at the Los Angeles memorial with his version of Who’s Loving You, will be asked to record that track and Jacko’s 1970s smash Ben.

Madonna, 50, could be tempted by Beat It or Billie Jean, while other songs expected to be covered include Rock With You, She’s Out Of My Life and Bad.

And Robbie, 35, is being lined up to sing Man In The Mirror amid reports his former Take That bandmates could cover ABC, Working Day And Night or Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough.

A source revealed last night: “The idea came from the memorial concert. Many fans asked if cover versions would be released and it seemed a wonderful idea.

“Some the biggest stars in the world have indicated they’d like to take part to pay their own respects and tribute to the King of Pop.”

“This covers album is sure to be a massive worldwide hit with fans and could raise a fortune for Michael’s favourite charities.”

Robbie, 35, revealed yesterday he has already been working on a tribute to Jacko – who died sudd-enly on June 25, aged 50 – on his own new studio album.

“It’s all so very sad,” he said. “I couldn’t get a lyric to fit on one of the new songs, so when Michael passed away I rewrote it with him in mind.”

It has already been revealed that Robbie and Whitney, 46, have been asked to play some of the O2 Arena dates that had been pencilled in for Jacko’s 50-gig run at the London venue.

A live tribute concert is also being planned at the venue, involving the singer’s family and other guests, on what would have been his 51st birthday on August 29.

Christine Bleakley has revealed that she would love to get Robbie Williams and his former Take That band mates on the One Show sofa.

The Co Down presenter reckons Robbie and the rest of his old band would be her dream guests on the popular BBC evening show.

Christine was speaking as she took part in a photoshoot with co-host Adrian Chiles to promote the new one hour Friday show, which kicks off from Friday, September 11.

The pair enjoy an off-screen chemistry as well as on.

Christine and Adrian have become close friends since she joined the prime-time chat show, replacing Mylene Klass, but their relationship has been the subject of much media speculation.

However they have both consistently denied rumours of a romance.

Speaking about the One Show’s guests Christine said: “I’m always quite impressed with them. I get really enthusiastic about our guests — once they arrive I know the show is really happening.

“The big American guests are really good — they fire answers back which translate really well with us.

“My dream guests would be Robbie Williams and Take That. Michael Caine was one of my all-time favourite guests.”

Adrian said he had presented lots of live television shows, but that the One Show had proved the toughest.

“It’s like the difference between writing for The Sun and The Times,” he said.

“It’s much harder writing for The Sun with a much lower word limit.”

Christine also compared the show to “going to the pub with your friends” and said she always felt like she was talking to her mum when she was presenting the programme.

The One Show, which is currently attracting five million viewers daily, is aired from Monday to Friday at 7pm on BBC1, with the extended show every Friday.

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/enterta....hQq2cF7

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