Few gave a penny for the four remaining members of the British boy band Take That, who gathered ten years after their breakup in 1996 for an album and a reunion tour. But the miracles are not over yet. The British people's love for Gary, Mark, Howard and Jason - Robbie Williams preferred his lucrative solo career - turned out to be more deeply entrenched than many could imagine, and comeback album
… Beautiful World (2006) became the best-selling in the group's history. Expectations for the successor are therefore high. The Circus plays a mature, almost Beatlesque pop sound, in which only faint echoes of the disco rhythms of their early hits can be found. The gentlemen wrote most of the songs themselves. Take That seems to be resurfacing at a time when Robbie Williams' career is at an all-time low. It can be wrong. (MS)more
