When his son, Elliot, turned 13, Sir Lucian Grainge, the music industry tycoon, arranged for Take That to perform at his bar mitzvah celebrations at Nobu, the upmarket Japanese restaurant in London’s Mayfair.
Elliot was grateful. But the boyband probably wouldn’t have been his choice of entertainment. At the time, his favorite musician was Eminem, an American rapper in possession of rather more edge than Gary Barlow.
