A former child model who at one point looked to have a promising career ahead of
him as a soccer star, Mark Owen from Oldham in the north of England never
expected to be a pop star. He was 17 and working in a pub in Manchester when he
met Gary Barlow, a singer-songwriter who happened to be performing there. Barlow
suggested Owen attended auditions for a new boyband he was joining and the rest
is the long and glittering history of Take That; one of the most successful
groups of all time with worldwide record sales of over 40 million in two spells
since they originally formed in 19...