The Circus (Take That album) weeks (one year, five months and one week) in the top 100 of the UK Albums Chart. All the tracks written by Take That (Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen) except where noted. All the tracks produced by John Shanks. The Circus (Take That album) The Circus is the fifth studio album by British pop band Take That. It was released in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2008. The album was their second, and also their last, as a four-piece, as founding member Robbie Williams returned for their sixth studio album "Progress" (2010), before both Williams
Fruit (slang) South, in reference to the jazz song popularised by Billie Holiday. "Fruit of the gibbet" (used 18th through late 19th centuries) refers to a hanged man and derives from the Halifax Gibbet Law under which a prisoner was executed first and his guilt or innocence determined afterwards. The instances of "Strange Fruit" being used within a LGBT context include the 1944 novel that depicts lesbianism, Kyle Schickner's 2004 video, performance artist and ethnographer E. Patrick Johnson's one-man show (which toured the US between 1999 and 2004) and others all of which used the name "Strange Fruit" and addressed racial issues