Former Take That bandmates Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow have recorded a duet together. The song, entitled Shame, appears on Williams' new greatest hits album, In and Out of Consciousness, and is accompanied by a video in which the two men commemorate cowboy film, Brokeback Mountain.
The pair are shown in the video drinking in a saloon, singing to each other. Later, they are shown fishing, and after eyeing each other up, "coyly" remove their tops.
Fifteen years after walking away for solo stardom (in Europe? Big success! Stateside, not so much), Robbie Williams will return to Take That, the chart-topping boy band he joined at age 16.
According to London’s The Sun, the reunited fivesome will release a new album at Christmas before heading out for a major stadium tour in the summer of 2011. But first, Williams and longtime bandmate/rival Gary Barlow will release a promo video for the new single “Shame,” due in October, with a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the 2005 ranch-hands-in-love epic Brokeback Mountain.
An insider tells The Sun: “In the song there’s a line about how he went into Toys R Us and saw the four Take That dolls in a box and realized he felt left out …Everything is in place now to formally announce Robbie’s return to Take That for one year only. He will announce his comeback with a public statement. Then he’ll release ‘Shame’ with Gary.”
The former Take That star has announced he is to release his eighth studio album after nearly three years in the wilderness.
He has been keeping a low profile in LA for the past couple of years, where he has been sporting a beard and pursuing his interest in UFOs.
Quite a difference from the suave looking Robbie looking pensively back at us in the promotional shot for his new album, which is entitled "Reality Killed the Video Star.} He wears a black suit and tie with his tattooed arms covered up.
The singer will be hoping to make a successful comeback following his critically panned 2006 album "Rudebox."
While he has been taking a break from music his former Take That band mates have enjoyed a hugely successful comeback.
Williams has been working on his new album with Trevor Horn, the legendary producer, who in his younger days was one half of electro-pop duo The Buggles. They wrote and recorded the number one hit Video Killed The Radio Star - which was the inspiration for the title of Williams' new album.
Since leaving Take That in 1996, Williams has had much success as a solo artist with six number one singles. Every album he had released in the UK - including Rudebox - have reached number one in the charts and he has sold a total of 55 million records around the world.
His new single Bodies will be released on October 12th while the album Reality Killed the Video Star will hit shops on November 9th.
The Feel hitmaker, who left the band almost 14-years-ago, says he has healed his bitter rift with Gary Barlow and is adamant his old pals want him back.
He tells Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper, "I'm in regular contact with them and it's looking more likely by the week. The lads all seem up for it. I think it would be fun.
"Let's see what happens, but my head’s in the right place, so the timing could be right if Gary calls. I think it would be fun. It would be good.
"The lads seem up for it and some people think it's a done deal."
"It would make sense for it to happen some time over the next year," he added. "We've matured now. We'd have a laugh."
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Former Take That bandmates Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow have recorded a duet together. The song, entitled Shame, appears on Williams' new greatest hits album, In and Out of Consciousness, and is accompanied by a video in which the two men commemorate cowboy film, Brokeback Mountain.
