1996 Take That: How Deep Is Your Love?

Final single release from Take That's first go round the houses, and in case anyone had any doubt it would be a number one, it's a Bee Gees cover (that the Bee Gees took to number three in 1977). The original slow dances on the smooth harmonies of the brothers, but being five mediocre vocalists (though four on this now that Robbie Williams had jumped ship) who couldn't harmonise on pain of a gun at their collective heads, Take That wisely stay away from a direct copycat take by serving it up with a spare Latin groove that converts it to borderline Muzak. Competent and professional yet dull and uninspiring with a clinical edge of cynicism, this is for fans only. Though I suspect even most of them would have preferred to seen Take That go out with a bang rather than this whimper.