Twelve Months, Eleven Days Twelve Months, Eleven Days Twelve Months, Eleven Days is the second solo studio album released by British singer-songwriter Gary Barlow. The album was released by BMG and RCA Records on 11 October 1999. It was to be Barlow's last studio album for 14 years until the release of "Since I Saw You Last" Following the success of Barlow's debut album "Open Road", expectations were high for his second solo album. However, when the album's lead single, "Stronger", a dance-ballad, was released on 5 July 1999, many fans were unsure of Barlow's change in direction, and the single only peaked at
Since I Saw You Last fully explored it. I turned back time and was listening to Johnny Cash and early Elton John before I wrote 'Let Me Go'. I'm 42; I don't want to do urban or dance music. I love Mumford & Sons—it's good, English music, but let's be honest, they got it off Johnny Cash too." Barlow cites that after the release of "Twelve Months, Eleven Days", he stopped singing as he walked away from the limelight. He said, "I never even sang in my own studio; I was telling myself [that] I don't need to be an artist anymore; I started as