History Music / TakeThatBand

* {{Bowlderise}}: The official upload of "Do What U Like" on their Youtube channel is a censored version that removes the nudity.

-->''I guess that now it's time she came back for good.''

The stage musical ''Theatre/GreatestDays'' is a jukebox musical of their work. It premiered in 2017, and became the fastest selling musical tour in the UK of all time.

The stage musical The Band is a jukebox musical of their work. It premiered in 2017, and became the fastest selling musical tour in the UK of all time.

** Their tour on 17 June 2009 had a [[http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2477/3671943867_2c950189d4_o.jpg giant mechanical elephant]].
** Another tour had a [[http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01321/Robbie_04_1321309a.jpg giant]] [[http://www.holymoly.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_665w/wenn_t_take-that-280511k_0.jpg mechanical]] [[http://www.hdrspotting.com/upload/resizedspot//2114/22805/large_DSC_5692_tonemapped.jpg man]].

* BareYourMidriff: RareMaleExample: Mark's "[[BrandX Junkie's baddy powder]]" crop top in the video for "Relight My Fire." Apparently he saw the top on a dancer, liked it, and so borrowed it off her. [[{{Fanservice}} It's pretty fondly remembered by fans]], showing males can pull off this trope if they're enough of a PrettyBoy.

* XTremeKoolLetterz: "Kidz", presumably titled as such to avoid confusion with the duet Robbie recorded with Music/KylieMinogue, entitled "[[NamesTheSame Kids]]."

* HornyDevils: the aesthetic frequently employed for performances of "Relight My Fire". Particularly the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvBoRGtBU7U Hometown in Manchester]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7asIBRo9Oa8 Ultimate Tour]] versions.

* RefrainFromAssuming: "Underground Machine", off ''Progress'', is most commonly referred to by one of it's more notable lines, "Oh What a Beast, Oh What a Man." It helps that the actual title is barely saved from being a NonAppearingTitle by being nigh-inaudibly whispered over the instrumental break near the end.

* AmbiguouslyGay: got their start in gay clubs, and were apparently instructed by their manager to remain ambiguous on the topic of their sexuality as a way of appealing to that audience. Of course, they soon started targeting more traditional BoyBand demographics (ie. teenage girls), but rumours that one if not all of them were gay carried on throughout the nineties. Now they are almost all married with children however, this no longer applies (although they still have plenty of HoYay).

A British pop band, consisting of members Music/GaryBarlow, Mark Owen, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Music/RobbieWilliams. They had a wildly successful initial run as a cheesy boy band from 1990 to 1996. The band stood out from most of their BoyBand peers because Barlow wrote almost all of their material himself, compared to other earlier and later groups that relied on outside songwriters. The group broke up in 1996, just as they were about to break-through in America and shortly after Williams departed for an extremely successful solo career.

* TalentShowVersion: It's actually more notable if an episode of ''The X-Factor'' or ''Series/BritainsGotTalent'' ''doesn't'' have a Take That excerpt in it somewhere, usually "Shine", "Greatest Day", "Patience", or "Rule The World". The 2008 and 2009 series of The X-Factor even had a Take That Night, with every contestant performing one of the band's songs. Funnily, however, they didn't repeat Take That week during the 2011 series, even though it was Gary Barlow's first year as a judge on the show.

* TheSvengali: Robbie Williams has accused their former manager, Nigel Martin-Smith, of being this. Whether or not it's true [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement shall not be discussed here]].

* ContinuityCavalcade: the video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YSxb7lP78Y Happy Now]]", done for Comic Relief 2011, featuring the boys auditioning a cover band of themselves (played by [[Series/TheLateLateShow James Corden]], John Bishop, Alan Carr, Creator/DavidWalliams, [[CrosscastRole and]] Creator/CatherineTate), who recreate several of their most famous ([[OldShame and infamous]]) costumes and dance routines from across their career, including from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpqAXZI0s0s Do What You Like]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCHg5r6rFoI The Flood]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbsAqs3YHyg Pray]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ICtCO8TCw Back For Good]].

* DefiniteArticleTitle: "The Flood", "The Circus", "The Garden", "The Day After Tomorrow", "The Day the Work Is Done", "The Last Poet."

* MindScrew: the video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn7uaz0fayA I'd Wait For Life]]", which features, in no particular order: shots of Mark, Howard amd Jason seemingly drowning in a lake, shots of Gary climbing out of the lake, shots of Jason rushing toward the lake, shots of Mark and Howard playing poker, shots of Howard waiting by the side of the road, shots of Jason blowing bubbles with a little girl, shots of Mark pulling a mask off, shots of Howard washing his face, shots of Howard arguing with a woman, shots of Jason dancing with a woman, all interspersed with Gary sitting in a car, singing. What ''any'' of this has to do with the song is anyone's guess.

* NewSoundAlbum: After 'The Circus', the band decided to move towards music with a stronger electronic influence-a change so dramatic that they even considered renaming themselves to The English. They kept their original name when Robbie rejoined the band, but 'Progress' was a very different album compared to their previous output. Instrumentals were primarily electronic, there were plenty of vocal effects (thankfully no autotune, though), and each track smoothly flowed into the next.