One Liners: McFly, Gary Barlow, Machine Head, more

Gary Barlow debuts at the top of the Official Albums Chart with his fifth record, Music Played By Humans. 

Take That alongside Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald and now, 25 years after breaking hearts across the world when he went solo, Robbie Williams is launching a brand new band. The 46-year-old has joined forces with Australian songwriters and producers Flynn Francis and Tim Metcalfe for the group, and although they don’t yet have a name, the trio have been hard at work in the studio and already have songs to release.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine Take That frontman and singing sensation shared a throwback photograph of him in his childhood room playing a keyboard and surrounded by musical paraphernalia. This set-up looks remarkably like the one he now has in his current west London pad, which he shares with wife Dawn and their children.The vintage picture shows Gary sitting at a keyboard, beaming at the camera, clearly enjoying his musical space.

Gary Barlow and Steps are locking horns for this week’s UK Number 1 album.

happened this week. “I spoke to them before the game and told them that as much as for yourself this is for Holty as well.“It wasn’t about me.

Gary Barlow delighted us when he made a surprise appearance on The Late Late Toy Show this Friday.

This week’s longlist of #NewMusicFriday single and album releases appears at the bottom of the page, but first, a few highlights…

Us Weekly‘s exclusive sneak peek of Lifetime’s Too Close for Christmas, Jessica Lowndes‘ Hayley attempts to get Chad Michael Murray‘s Luke into the Christmas spirit — and bring some tradition into his life.During the preview, the pair visit a Christmas tree farm and Luke picks out a small tree with very little branches. “It’s not bare, it just has its own thing going on,” he says.

This week, Gary Barlow is set to launch his fifth solo album, Music Played By Humans. 

DEALSComedian Munya Chawawa has signed a deal with Warner’s Atlantic Records to release music as his “posh drill rapper” alter-ego Unknown P. “Two years of sketches, one ‘Fire In The Booth’ and a few middle class bars later, and here we are”, he says.

Gary Barlow has touched upon his weight loss journey during a recent chat with James Corden. The Take That star confessed he had a "rough period with food" which caused him to pile on the pounds after binging on Chinese takeaways.Speaking to the chat show host on Zoom with The Sun, Gary shared: "I had a rough period with food that I'm not proud of, where I really lost control of myself.

The Sun, Gary admitted that his diet wasn’t just about losing weight, explaining it was more of a ‘condition’ he couldn’t continue.He explained that he was ‘disappointed’ with himself before he started focusing on the type of food he ate.‘So I decided not to have cheat days, and just stay away from those foods. I’d love to have the odd cigarette now and then but I can’t.