Taint That

The judgement that Gary Barlow and fellow Take That band members Mark Owen, Howard Donald along with their manager Jonathan Wild were knowingly involved in an aggressive tax avoidance scheme might prompt Barlow to say Today I've lost You of the British public as a 'national treasure' is revealed to have feet of clay and The Flood of opprobrium was unleashed.  At the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, on arguably his Greatest Day, Barlow could have been said to Rule the World, a sense of Affirmation after putting some of the sadder parts of his past behind him but now the Shine has certainly been removed.  As he once asked What is Love?, he, Owen (who had more than a 4 Minute Warning on this), Donald and Wild, might ask what is wrong - it was avoidance, not evasion and it doesn't matter What You Believe In, it was all above board.  As he was coining it in, Sunday to Saturday, Could It Be Magic must have been running through his mind.  He was invited to Reach Out for the Pretty Things.  Forget You, embrace me, me, me.  It's a Wonderful World as they took that.
Holding Back The Tears, they will have to pay not A Million Love Songs, rather tens of millions of pounds into the exchequer (should help fund a few more of Michael Gove's free schools) in a manner of 'We All Fall Down' and will keep them Up All Night, that's for Sure.  They will Hate It.  Possibly induce them to Pray.  They can't argue that they did this 'When We Were Young' but then again, they made no Promises.  Having released No Si Aqui No Hay Amor and feeling that Love Ain't Here Anymore, Barlow and his crew may move to Spain or a low-tax outpost in Latin America becoming Aliens, dismissing The Circus of the domestic media.  Equally, he might feel of the British that he and fellow band members Never Want To Let You Go, All I Want Is You and Hold On, for this is All That Matter to Me, whilst saying to the judge Happy Now?  In his SOS, he will ask to Stay Together, say his decency is Back For Good, that this episode has caused Another Crack in My Heart, it wasn't true that he thought Like I Never Loved You At All and he will be terribly sorry to have Broken Your Heart. Eight Letters won't be able to fix it that simply though, even if they rope in Lulu to ask the British to say of themselves Relight my Fire.  Some will still want to stick them upon a Rocket Ship or a Wooden Boat or demand community service where they might tend a Flowerbed in The Garden they were assigned.
Trouble is, Take That have released too many sappy, similarly titled singles to avoid ennui. However, I can say, even if Gary lives to the age of 84, with an abundance of Patience, the Establishment will Never Forget.  Barlow, though keeping his OBE, is a Man who can kiss goodbye to any chance of a knighthood.