It was the feud of the nineties - Robbie Williams versus Gary Barlow, Take That's 'fat dancer' versus the brains behind the operation.
Where Robbie was flighty, erratic and frivolous, Gary was serious, studious and notoriously tight fisted. And when Robbie got sacked from the band - or left, depending on who's version of events you're listening to - their acrimony exploded.
His departure had been a long time coming. Robbie - who was just 16 when he joined Take That - had been making noises about leaving for a while.
And when he disappeared from rehearsals to go on yet another bender at Glastonbury with the Gallagher brothers, his hacked-off bandmates Gary, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald told him to leave sooner rather than later.
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