But it didn’t start out easy. Their first three singles – Do What U Like, Promises and Once You’ve Tasted Love – flopped with disappointing sales. Thankfully, their next single, It Only Takes A Minute, proved a lot more successful and Take That made their Top of the Pops debut.
But for Gary, there’s one song that sticks out as the “worst” he’s ever written. He was first disappointed that It Only Takes A Minute was a cover song, which made him feel “defeated”.
He said: “I felt like I’d failed because I hadn’t delivered what we’d needed as a group.”
It wasn’t far and away the lowest point of his career, however – that came later.
Gary considers their next single, I Found Heaven, to be “by a huge margin, the worst song of Take That’s and my career.”
They didn’t write the song, which Gary said was “f***ing awful”.
In his autobiography My Take, Gary wrote: “The song Ian made us sing was truly f***ing awful. I still hate it to this day. In fact, we all hate it and absolutely refuse to perform it on stage.
“It is, by a huge margin, the worst song of Take That’s and my career. At the time I said nothing because I felt I didn’t have a leg to stand on.”
The band were also disappointed by the location used to shoot the music video – Sandown Beach on the Isle of Wight – as they wanted to film it abroad instead.