Face to Face (Gary Barlow song) Face to Face (Gary Barlow song) "Face to Face" is a song by British singer-songwriter Gary Barlow featuring Sir Elton John. It was released in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2014 as the second single from his fourth solo album, "Since I Saw You Last" (2013). It was written by Barlow and John Shanks, and it was produced by Steve Power. When writing "Since I Saw You Last", Barlow came up with a song called "Face to Face", and knew straight away that he wanted to try to get his friend Sir Elton John to sing it with him.
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 &