Netflix Drops First Trailer For Take That Documentary Series: ‘Nothing Beats Being in a Band’
“Nothing beats being in a band.” That’s what singer Gary Barlow says in the first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming three-part limited series about 1990s British boy band Take That. The Take That series, set to drop on the streamer on Jan. 27, will feature a behind-the-scenes look behind the group that featured Barlow, as well as Howard Donald, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Robbie Williams.
The boy band in which Barlow served as the lead singer and songwriter, with Owen and future break-out star Williams mostly singing backing vocals, scored 17 top 5 singles in their native U.K. during their run, including five No. 1 hits.
After Barlow’s opening note about the beauty of being in a band, we hear him say in voice-over “there’s a strength… there’s a buzz,” over footage of the guys goofing around backstage before a gig in steampunk-style military outfits capped by goggles on their heads. “From the beginning, there was something within us that wanted to prove something,” says Owen.
The band members attest to being “tight amongst ourselves,” as well as a feeling of being “kings of the world” at the height of their fame, even as they admit that there is nothing that could have prepared them for the level of fame they achieved at their peak in the ’90s.
The series promises to document the group’s rise to fame and their tricky interpersonal relationships via never-before-seen footage, interviews and rare archive material gathered over the past 35 years, including new interviews with Barlow, Donald and Owen. According to Deadline, all five members of the band took part in the doc, even Williams, who split with the group in 1995, a year before they broke up.
They reunited, sans Williams, in 2005, for a documentary and subsequent world tour as a four-piece, releasing two albums (2006’s Beautiful World and 2008’s The Circus) before Williams rejoined in 2010 for their sixth studio LP, Progress. Williams was gone again by the time of 2014’s III album, as was Orange, reducing the band to a three-piece for the first time in its career.
The clip ends with the predictably cheeky Williams, wearing a shiny silver helmet, turning to the camera and joking, “We all kissed before the show… in a butch way.”
Take That will hit the road next summer for their The Circus Live tour, slated to kick off on May 29 at St. Mary’s Stadium in Southhampton, U.K.
Watch the Take That trailer below.
