Since I Saw You Last (song) Since I Saw You Last (song) "Since I Saw You Last" is a song by British singer-songwriter Gary Barlow. It was released in the United Kingdom on 14 April 2014 as the third and final single from his fourth solo album, "Since I Saw You Last" (2013). It was written by Barlow and produced by Steve Power. "Since I Saw You Last" tells the story of Barlow's struggle to become a successful solo artist after Take That split in 1996, and how the media backlash against him in favour of bandmate Robbie Williams left him in the verge of breakdown,
Since I Saw You Last that I listen back now and think 'Who's that?', but "Since I Saw You Last" was easy to make; there's a lot of my life on this record." Several of the album's songs were co-written in 2011, for a planned duo-album with Robbie Williams titled Cain & Abel, a nod to Barlow's autobiography, where he refers to himself and Williams as the Cain and Abel of Take That. Williams called the Cain & Abel album 'middle-of-the-road' – believing its sound was too mature to garner mass appeal with his desired youthful, mainstream audience, and decided to cancel the Cain &