The group have had 28 top-40 singles and 17 top-5 singles on the UK Singles Chart, 12 of which have reached number one, including "Back for Good", "Never Forget", "Patience" and "Greatest Day". They have also had eight number-one albums on the UK Albums Chart. Internationally, the band have had 56 number one singles and 39 number-one albums. They have received eight Brit Awards—winning for Best British Group and Best British Live Act. In 2012 they received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Take That has been certified for 14 million albums and 11.4 million singles in the UK.
Williams left the band in 1995 while the four remaining members completed their world tour and released a final single before splitting up in 1996. After filming a 2005 Take That: For the Record about the group and releasing a new greatest hits album, a four-piece Take That without Williams officially announced a 2006 reunion tour around the UK, entitled The Ultimate Tour. On 9 May 2006, it was announced that the group were set to record new material together once again; their fourth studio album, Beautiful World, was released in 2006 and was followed up with The Circus, in 2008. The group achieved new success as a four-piece, scoring a string of chart hits across the UK and Europe while selling over 45 million records worldwide. Williams rejoined Take That in 2010 for the band's sixth studio album, Progress. Released on 15 November of that year, it was the first album of new material to feature Take That's original line-up since their 1995 album, Nobody Else. It became the fastest-selling album of the 21st century and the second fastest-selling album in British history.
In 2014, the band recorded a seventh studio album, this time as a trio without Williams and Orange. The album, titled III, was released in November 2014 and became the band's seventh number one. It was preceded by the single "These Days", which became the band's 12th number one single in the UK.
In 2011, Take That set the new record for the fastest-selling tour of all time in the UK with Progress Live, beating the previous record set by their Circus Live Tour in 2009. At the 2011 Brit Awards they won Best British Group. In 2012, Forbes named them the fifth highest-earning music stars in the world. The group performed at the London 2012 Olympic Games closing ceremony, playing "Rule the World" while the Olympic Flame was extinguished. In the same year, the Official Charts Company revealed the biggest-selling singles artists in British music chart history with Take That currently placed at 15th overall, making them the most successful boy band in UK chart history. Four of their albums are listed in the best-selling albums of the millennium, with three of them among the 60 best-selling albums in UK chart history.
Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_That
Studio albums
Take That and Party (1992)
Everything Changes (1993)
Nobody Else (1995)
Beautiful World (2006)
The Circus (2008)
Progress (2010)
Progressed (2011)
III (2014)
Wonderland (2017)
This Life (2023)
Love Love
Take That Lyrics
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We're getting close to the center of the Earth with an honest plan
You'll never be your mother or your father do you understand
Until you understand
We don't have too much time here
And time it travels far too fast
We're not to far we're too near
Before they take it from our hands
Why don't you teach your heart to talk and give your love love, give your love love.
Gimme gimme what I need
We'll take you right back down to the Earth from the mother land
This is a first class journey to the gods to the son of man
You're at the gates of human revolution don't you understand
Why don't you understand
(Understand) we don't have too much time here
And time it travels far too fast
We're not too far we're too near
Before they take it from our hands
Why don't you teach your heart to fill and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to talk and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to fill and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to talk and give your love love, give your love love.
Gimme gimme what I need
We don't have too much time here
And time it travels far too fast
We're not too far we're too near
Before they take it from our hands
Why don't you teach your heart to fill and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to talk and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to fill and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to talk an give your love love, give your love love.
Gimme gimme what I need
The song Love Love by Take That is a passionate call for love to reign supreme before it's too late. The first verse implores the listener to come back down to Earth from the promised land and to have an honest plan. The second line of the verse could be interpreted as a nod to Jules Verne's novel journey to the center of the Earth. The next line that says "You'll never be your mother or your father do you understand" may be a challenge for the listener to forge their own unique path in life, without emulating their parents. The chorus is a repetition of a plea for everyone to teach their heart to fill up with love and to give it all away.
The second verse is reminiscent of the Hindu belief in attaining Moksha by transcending the material world and achieving spiritual enlightenment. The song invites the listener into a first-class journey to the gods to the son of man at the gates of human revolution. The overall message seems to be a call for everyone to awaken to the importance of love before it's too late, and to start giving it all away. The song also reminds the listener that time travels far too fast, that life is short, and that it's important to be mindful of the time we have on this earth.
Line by Line Meaning
You bring me right back down to the Earth from the promised land
You ground me and remind me of reality when I get lost in my dreams and desires.
We're getting close to the center of the Earth with an honest plan
We are approaching the core of our existence by living truthfully and with purpose.
You'll never be your mother or your father do you understand
You are unique and cannot be compared to your parents, do you recognize this fact?
Until you understand
It is important that you comprehend this truth.
We don't have too much time here
We have limited time on this earth and must make the most of it.
And time it travels far too fast
Time passes quickly and it is easy to lose track of it.
We're not to far we're too near
We are not distant from our goals, but rather we are already close to achieving them.
Before they take it from our hands
Before our opportunities slip out of our grasp and are lost forever.
Why don't you teach your heart to fill and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why not train yourself to be kind and generous with your love, give it away unconditionally.
Why don't you teach your heart to talk and give your love love, give your love love.
Why don't you encourage yourself to express your emotions and communicate your love to others.
Gimme gimme what I need
I require the things I need to achieve my goals and be happy.
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: GARY BARLOW, ROBBIE WILLIAMS, MARK OWEN, JASON ORANGE, HOWARD DONALD
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Letra: You bring me right back down to the Earth from the promised land
We're getting close to the centre of the Earth with an honest plan
You'll never be your mother or your father do you understand
Until you understand
We don't have too much time here
And time it travels far too fast
We're not to far we're too near
Before they take it from our hands
Why don't you teach your heart to fill and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to talk and give your love love, give your love love. Gimme gimme what I need
We'll take you right back down to the Earth from the mother land
This is a first class journey to the gods to the son of man
Your at the gates of human revolution don't you understand
Why don't you understand
Understand
We don't have too much time here
And time it travels far too fast
We're not too far we're too near
Before they take it from our hands
Why don't you teach your heart to fill and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to talk and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to fill and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to talk and give your love love, give your love love. Gimme gimme what I need
We don't have too much time here
And time it travels far too fast
We're not too far we're too near
Before they take it from our hands
Why don't you teach your heart to fill and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to talk and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to fill and give your love love, give your love love give it all away
Why don't you teach your heart to talk an give your love love, give your love love. Gimme gimme what I need
jae
10 years later and this song still slaps
Paul5020
11 Years and the Song will never be bad
Jay Artist
@Paul5020 11 years and three months and the song still rocks
Reece Hayes
Nnl
Lance Wilson
12 yrs and still good 😎
I was 12 yrs when this song came out 😁
Lindsey Wright-Coomber
Even 12years later! 🥰
Remingusu
Gonna throw this out there - this is Take That's most underrated song by an absolute country mile. It's bloody immense.
SML Fan
They have too many underrated songs.
TheKatyc
You are way more powerful than any demon . Because you have ME.
TheKatyc
See. I made you both laugh. It’s a gift. 😁