E195 - Gary Barlow: My biggest failure, and why I needed it
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Gary Barlow is one of Britain’s most successful songwriters and record producers. As part of pop group Take That, he has won eight BRIT Awards and sold over 45 million records with almost four decades in the music industry.
Gary shares with Jake and Damian the exciting but tumultuous initial years with Take That, the relationships with his band members and how he dealt with world-wide success. He details his attempt to ‘break America’ and how this experience changed his life. Jake, Damian and Gary delve into the most emotional moments of his career, and why it is so important to embrace failure.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Jake Cumpfrey and you're listening to High Performance, the award-winning |
| 0:05.0 | podcast that reminds you it's within. As always hello to our regular listeners right |
| 0:10.1 | across the world who tune into us every week so that we can be your armour, your partner, |
| 0:14.4 | your guide in a world that's so often feels negative, divisive or confused and |
| 0:19.7 | especially one welcome to anyone that hasn't listened to High Performance before, that we really want |
| 0:24.8 | these conversations to remind you of your power, your potential and what you're all |
| 0:29.4 | capable of. So right now allow myself and Professor Damien Hughes to unlock the mind of another |
| 0:34.2 | fascinating guest so they can be your teacher today. This is what's coming up on today's episode. |
| 0:42.1 | It's the perfect press story that two guys from the same band are coming out, |
| 0:46.6 | ones making great music versus this guy who is now a watered down version of who he was before |
| 0:54.5 | he went to America, he'd just played itself out as badly as it could. The worst three minutes I |
| 1:02.6 | think of my whole life, there's no coming back from this, there's no second performance to launch |
| 1:08.3 | yourself in America, this was it and I also knew I'm not meant to be this guy, I'm better than this, |
| 1:16.6 | I need to sort this out. But the first runner did, I was so out of shape but it felt brilliant |
| 1:24.2 | to run, it felt brilliant to move, to feel air going across my face, I just remember giggling to |
| 1:31.0 | myself walking back thinking I've got a lot to do here but you know what it's all right because I'm |
| 1:35.6 | on the road now, where I'm now in my life it's such a great place that I have to look back and go |
| 1:43.1 | God I needed to fail. So today we welcome Gary Barlow to High Performance, man this was a cool |
| 1:49.4 | conversation, like I'm sure that like many people you have an opinion of Gary Barlow, like who |
| 1:54.2 | doesn't, he's the guy from Tech That, he's the guy who's been on our TV screens for years, he's |
| 1:58.6 | the guy who's been in the papers for decades but please remember this podcast is not about opinion, |
| 2:04.5 | opinion is worthless, it's empathy that really matters and we want you to understand more about |
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