Gary Barlow supports Practice-a-thon Music

Gary Barlow has helped launch the Practice-a-thon Music campaign.

The Take That musician - along with Russell Watson, Jamie Cullum and Dani Harmer (aka Tracy Beaker) - is urging people to play their part in raising money for children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent by finding their inner musician and getting sponsored to play a musical instrument for two weeks, or hold a fundraising gig.

Gary Barlow said: "I was 10 when I started to play piano, I played it by ear to start with for the first couple of years. It's a very easy song, Back For Good, as there are only four or five chords in it - practice makes perfect, definitely!"

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