Take That are bringing their hit musical The Band to London. The show, which has been touring the UK, will open at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 1 December for a six-week run. Accompanying the 50-show residency will be a new greatest hits package, which will feature re-imagined versions of their best-loved songs. Gary Barlow tells Classic Pop: “The timing is purely coincidental because we’ve been wanting to put the Greatest Hits together for a while. We are spending a bit of time finding the right arrangements and planning a tour as well.
“I feel we’re worth more than just a run-of-the-mill compilation of old songs. It’s an interesting process reworking them and we are thoroughly enjoying it. We got all the old multi-track tapes and digitised them. There’s a few that we’ve re-imagined from scratch.”