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Take That comeback

5th April 2007 by Helena 5 Comments  

Back for goodThere was a good article in this week’s Sunday Times about the remarkable comeback of Take That. Bryan Appleyard wrote about how amazing it is that after ten years in the wilderness the boys are back, bigger and better than ever.

It’s all very well going on about their ten years in the wilderness, but what about mine? It’s been horrible having to listen to Robbie Williams for the past ten years.

BabiesI remember when I first saw Take That. I was at my mother’s house in Devon (and by the way she thinks she may have spotted Heathcliff in a local supermarket, but decided not to approach him) when the five boys appeared, half-naked and dancing.

My mother was amazed at how young they were. “I wouldn’t know whether to feed them or f*** them,” she said. I was less confused then but looking at an old picture of them in Bryan’s article I have to admit they looked about fourteen.

Anyway, the MINUTE I heard they had come out with a new album I ordered it. I have now copied it several times so we have copies for both cars and each of the children’s rooms. They are all addicted to it and sing along loudly. Bea’s favourite is Patience which she hums non-stop. My husband has tried to wean them off by playing them Bob Dylan whenever I’m not around but I’m thrilled to say it hasn’t worked.

I am still researching my book on anti-ageing and I have to say that a Take That album played loudly in a convertible car whilst driving along in the sunshine is as good a tonic as I’ve come across, on a par with Laughter Yoga on Laguna Beach.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2007


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5 thoughts on Take That comeback

  • Drunk Mummy says:
    5th April 2007 at 3:48 pm

    Despite being a closet Take That fan, I’m not sure that comebacks are a great idea. Isn’t it better to remember ‘the boys’ just as they were ten years ago – young and beautiful? I mean, have you seen the scary pictures publicising the latest Rolling Stones concert? It looks like fancy dress night at the local retirement home. Whatever happened to The Who’s “Hope I die before I get old” – although judging by the promotional pics, Keith Richards has actually done so, and is just being propped up by the other band members.
    Surely its more impressive to be like Bill Wyman, who now spends his days with a metal detector, leaving his erstwhile band members to shake their arthritic limbs on stage.

  • Sally Lomax says:
    5th April 2007 at 4:13 pm

    I invented an anti ageing remedy. SAY years!!! See my blog on anti ageing entry!!!!

    O.k. a little light hearted it is…………..

    BUT it takes 20 years off everyone who reads it!!!!!!

  • Sally Lomax says:
    5th April 2007 at 4:20 pm

    Hope this works!

    Here’s the link!

  • Mutterings and Meanderings says:
    5th April 2007 at 7:56 pm

    Ah Helena, we have a slightly differnt take on this ….mine’s at:

    http://mutteringsandmeanderings.blogspot.com/2007/03/guilty-pleasures.html

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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Helena is also working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in spring 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

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