TT Book Discovery and a Mark Mini Pic Spam

[przed]

A few weeks ago, I finally broke down and got a used copy of Take That In Private on the Amazon UK marketplace. I've had it for a few weeks, but I only just noticed today that it came with a bit of a bonus tucked into the back cover:



Yep, that would be an actual 45 RPM single of Babe, Mark's first lead song with the band back in the day. Also, if you squint, you can see that at the top of the back flyleaf the previous owner has recorded when TT split up. I feel like I'm the keeper of a little piece of someone else's history.

In celebration of this little discovery, I thought I'd put up a quote from the book, with a few illustrating Markie pics. Because one can never have too many pics of Mark Owen. Srsly!

First, the quote, wherein the writer describes Mark taking a bath. (Really. I could not make this stuff up.):

"He's thin – all of Take That worry that he's too thin. His ribs are showing as he stretches across to reach the soap, but his legs belong to a footballer."

First of all, awww for the other boys worrying about Mark. But now let's investigate the rest of that quote.

Here's Mark, in a bath – though not taking a bath, darn it – and yep, looking a bit on the skinny side.


The wilderness years, and he's still almost alarmingly skinny, though with nicely buff arms I definitely appreciate.


Then there's that last bit. Does he have legs that belong a footballer? Let's check:


Yes. Yes, he does. Is it hot in here?

Comments

[przed.livejournal.com]

I often wonder how/why the others didn't say anything about Mark's drinking at least, especially when they'd all seen that behaviour from Robbie before and all clearly bear some guilt about how they dealt with that.

That is indeed the interview. Mark's section was pretty awful, and then to have Gary break in and make a joke...I'm betting he felt horrible after he found out what had been going on.

[anniina85.livejournal.com]

I too often wonder if the others were worried about Mark's drinking or if they tried to make him stop. And it wasn't just the drinking, they must have noticed that something was wrong and Mark wasn't doing so well. Or, he just managed to hide it all *very* well. I can't imagine that the others didn't care... but it's hard to help someone who doesn't wanna be helped and hasn't admitted to themselves that they have a problem.

That inteview was both incredibly interesting and painfull to read. It was obvious that Mark was still feeling vulnerable about it all... and probably still is. I for sure would want to know what went through Gary's head when he found out how the interview had uppset Mark! I hope he offered Mark some comforting afterwards :)