Birth Date: 20th January 1971

Place of Birth: Frodsham, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Family: Parents (Marge and Colin Barlow)
            Older Brother (Ian Barlow)

Education: The first school was Weaver Vale in Frodsham.  He
                 then continued to Frodsham High School.  His
                 mother taught in this school.  Gary left school after
                 obtaining six O levels.

Acting: Played Joseph in "Joseph & The Amazing Tehnicolor
            Dreamcoat".

Talent: At 11 years old he chose a keyboard for Christmas
           over a BMX bike.  He was a self taught musician and
           started writing his own songs.

Career: * At 11 years old he worked at Connah's Quay Labour
              Club in Frodsham.  He earned £18 for each Saturday
              night gig.
            * Met Heather and became partner.  Both sang and
              performed together for two years in the club.
            * Got himself a job at the Halton British Legion in
              Widness near Runcorn.  He started to play four gigs
              every weekend which finished at 2AM every night.
              Gary started to earn £140 a night.

Beginning: At 15 years old Gary entered a national BBC Pebble
                 Mill competition called 'A Song For Christmas'.  Gary
                 penned 'Let's Pray For Christmas'.  He submitted his
                 song for the competition.  It was chosen and Pebble
                 Mill invited Gary to London's West Heath Studios to
                 record the song.  His song only reached semi-finals.
                 He met Bob Howes who introduced him to Rod
                 Argent.   The prize for reaching semi-finals was
                 recording at Strawberry Studios in Manchester
                 where he met Mark Owen, the tea-boy.  Both of
                 them formed 'Cutest Rush', singing cover versions
                 and Gary's own songs.

Stardom:   Mark brought Gary to meet Nigel Martin-Smith who                  wanted to form a group.  'Take That' was formed                  with Gary as the lead vocalist.  The other members                  were Mark, Robbie, Jason and Howard.  "Take That"
                & Party" was released in 1991.  They soon became a
                'huge machine'.

Split: On 13th February 1996 Take That broke up.  They
        appeared on a TV show in Amsterdam April 1996.   After
        that Gary flew back to London to work on his debut solo
        album.

Solo: In July 1996 Gary released his first solo single titled
        "Forever Love" and it debuted at #1 in the UK Single
        Chart. 

Dream: His dream of breaking into US turned into a reality
            when he impressed Clive Davis the head of Arista, US
            with his performance at BMG's world conference in
            San Diego, US.   Clive Davis gave Gary a "dream team"
            that comprised Diane Warren, David Foster and Walter
            Afanasieff.

Manager: It was around this time that Gary dropped his long
               term manager, Nigel Martin-Smith who wasn't
               supportive of his dream to break into US.  He then
               signed with Simon Fuller, the man who was
               responsible for the huge success of the Spice Girls.

Another #1: After the long absence Gary released "Love Won't
                   Wait" which was written by Madonna and Shep
                   Pettibone.   The song went to #1 and it became
                   Gary's second consecutive #1 hit in UK.  At this
                   point "Open Road" hasn't released in US yet.

New Manager: Gary changed manager again and set up his own
                       management company called "GloBe Artists".  He
                       is the Executive Director and his new manager
                       is Kristina Kyriacou.

#1 Album: "Open Road" was released in May 1997 in UK and it
                 debuted at #1 in the UK Album Chart.

America: "So Help Me Girl" was the first release in America.   It
               was a cover version of a country song originally
               recorded by Joe Diffe.  This song reached #44 in the
               US Billboard Single Chart and spent three weeks at #1
               in the Radio and Record chart in US. "Open Road",
               the US version that includes "Superhero", a brand new
               song not found in the UK version was released in
               January 1998.  "Superhero" was the second single off
               the album but it didn't chart as well as the first
               single.