NETHERLANDS: British boy-band 'Take That' in Amsterdam for last ever recording and interview

Record ID: 434851

  • Title: NETHERLANDS: British boy-band 'Take That' in Amsterdam for last ever recording and interview
  • Date: 4th April 1996
  • Summary: AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (APRIL 4, 1996) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SCREAMING, CRYING FANS ON BRIDGE OUTSIDE HOTEL GIRL ON CRUTCHES WALKING TOWARDS BUS VARIOUS OF 200 "LUCKY GIRLS" CHOSEN TO ATTEND LAST CONCERT IN BUS OUTSIDE OLYMPIC STADIUM IN AMSTERDAM TAKE THAT BAND MEMBERS WAVING TO 200 GIRLS OUTSIDE STUDIOS FOR RECORDING OF IVO NIEHE CHAT SHOW VARIOUS OF FAINTING FANS CARRIED
  • Embargoed: 19th April 1996 13:00
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  • Location: AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA5T26NLM0GKJCFHF7B6GW840TI
  • Story Text: Amsterdam was besieged by more than a thousand screaming teenage fans bidding farewell to British band Take That.
    The band was in Amsterdam last week (April 4) to make their last ever recording and interview. In their short but successful career the group rocketed to fame becoming idols to a generation.
    All four members of the band Take That prepared for their final performance before splitting up on Thursday (April 4) despite the shrieked protests of about 1,000 teenage fans.
    The girls surrounded the band's hotel, determined to find some way of seeing Take That's final songs on a Dutch television chat show.
    Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen decided to dissolve Take That in February after the departure of the group's figurehead Robbie Williams.
    The members of the group were recruited specifically by record producers and management to create a pop band that would appeal to teenage girls. The formula has been a success and the group has been one of Britain's top earners for the past six years.
    They have had 12 top ten hits including seven number ones and hold the record as the only group to have four singles debuting at the top of the charts in their first week.
    Hundreds of girls waved homemade banners and sang their favourite Take That songs outside the Amstel Intercontinental Hotel where the band was staying.
    The eventual brief appearance of the group in front of fans before leaving on a canal barge prompted a fresh barrage of screaming.
    Traffic was blocked as the fans crowded onto a bridge, waving and yelling as their heroes cruised away on the canals.
    Television staff said fans had telephoned in tears and their mothers had made threats about what they would do if their daughters were not given tickets to the final performance.
    Take That gave their final interview as a group to the music television channel MTV and used the air time to plug the final album as a group and their continuing solo careers.
    Their latest album, Take That's Greatest Hits, has already sold 600,000 copies and they are popular across Europe and in Japan.
    Lead singer Gary Barlow said he hoped to release an album in 1996 but wasn't giving away anything about what fans can expect from his debut solo production.
    Barlow joked with his MTV compare about the title of the album after talking about the less conventional attractions in Amsterdam and said the title of the album would be S and M dungeon.
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