Take That confirm details of album with Robbie Williams

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Gary joined Robbie on stage earlier this month at the Help For Heroes gig

Take That's first album in 15 years with Robbie Williams will be called Progress and will be released on 22 November.

New single The Flood will arrive before the album and is released on 4 November.

The record, produced by Stuart Price, was put together during secret sessions in New York in September 2009.

Robbie officially rejoined the band in July saying he was "embarrassingly excited" at being back in the group.

Robbie's 'nerves'

Before Progress is released, Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams will release their duet Shame (4 October).

The track also appears on Robbie's forthcoming greatest hits, In And Out Of Consciousness.

Robbie last appeared on the Take That's 1995 album Nobody Else.

In August the pair conducted their first interview together for 15 years with Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles.

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Robbie said he was 'nervous' before reuniting with his old band last year

Williams said he'd reunited with his former bandmates after an invitation to get together in LA.

He said: "I was very nervous because there were four of them. I came so close to not going because I had toothache that night and I'd just taken a painkiller.

"I was quite large as well, and I thought 'I can't go mumbling, looking like Elvis'.

"I'd said some nasty things about [Barlow]. 'What do I do if I go in? Is he harbouring anything?' So the missus pushed me through the door.

"It was very exciting, very liberating."

He went on to reveal that he invited the band back to his house the next night, where he was able to have a proper discussion with Barlow.

"I spent the last 15 years thinking what I was going to say. We had that big chat and the most amazing thing happened at the end of it, we both said sorry to each other and we both meant it.

"That's all we needed. It just lifted so much off my shoulders that I didn't know was still there."

Take That's last album The Circus was released in 2008.

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