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Oh, I agree! If I'm honest I'm too young to remember Take That their first time around, but from everything I've devoured since getting into them - books, interviews, etc. - I've always gotten the impression that in the 90s Gary was often on the outside looking in, but not actually realising that was the case until he got a bit older and wiser. And it's always little things that lead me to that conclusion as well - there's an interview close to their break up wherein Mark spoke about the first time they all went clubbing together and Gary was like a complete fish out of water because he'd never been anywhere like that before, and Mark sounded simultaneously amused by it and sorry for him as well. Gary's actually oddly complex in a way you don't realise until you sit down and think about it, whereas the others I'd say are more obviously complicated...

I'm so sorry, this turned into an unnecessarily longwinded reply! XD