Gary Barlow releases Face To Face video with Elton John

Gary Barlow announced that his second single 'Face To Face', a massive duet with his long time friend and inspiration Sir Elton John, will be released on January 20th; and the video has premiered online this morning. This follows the release of his first single 'Let Me Go', which charted at No.3 in the charts yesterday. See the video on VEVO: http://youtu.be/fOmCw1tuyrY

'Face To Face' is a glowing collaborative performance from a certified British hit song maker and a Multi-BRIT and Grammy award winning global musical legend; it puts Gary side by side with one of the greatest and most successful artists of our generation. The single is assured, classic song writing from Gary (alongside John Shanks who produced Beautiful World and The Circus) with a timeless quality about it that will no doubt see it firmly embedded on radios nationwide for decades to come. Elton said of the recording, "It really was a fun day and I loved working with Gary."

'Face To Face' is the second instalment from Gary's first solo studio album in over 14 years entitled 'Since I Saw You Last', due to be released through Polydor Records on November 25th. Mr Barlow, who has been jointly responsible for some of the biggest pop songs in British music history, drew on past works from legendary songsmiths like Johnny Cash, Burt Bacharach and Rod Temperton for inspiration to write this record.

The song and video for 'Face To Face' were recorded and filmed in only four hours at Abbey Road Studios earlier this year. The vocal performances for the song were recorded in only a handful of takes with the video being shot simultaneously by Chris Howe and produced by Ben Winston; Ben also shot the video for Gary's first single as well as working with him on the Diamond Jubilee documentary 'Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service'.

Gary wrote all the songs for 'Since I Saw You Last' in London and recorded them mainly between his own Future Studios and producer Steve Power's TOP Studios, with the strings arrangements captured at Abbey Road Studios. Gary's last solo album 'Twelve Months, Eleven Days' was released in 1999, with his debut solo record 'Open Road' hitting the No.1 spot in May 1997.

Sir Elton John has achieved 35 gold and 25 platinum albums, has sold more than 250-million records worldwide, and holds the record for the biggest selling single of all time, Candle In The Wind 1997, which sold over 33,000,000 copies.

Gary will embark on a headline arena tour in April 2014, his biggest shows ever, which will kick off in Glasgow on April 2nd and finish in Nottingham on the 17th.

Full list of tour dates below:

March 2014
29 Belfast Odyssey Arena
31 Dublin The O2

April 2014
2 Glasgow The SSE Hydro
3 Leeds First Direct Arena
5 London The O2
8 Birmingham LG Arena
9 Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
11 Liverpool Echo Arena
12 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
14 Manchester Phones 4u Arena
17 Nottingham Capital FM Arena
19 Birmingham LG Arena
20 Sheffield Motorpoint Arena