Take That record with Madonna producer

IT'S not been the best couple of weeks for TAKE THAT - but at last here's some exciting news about their music.

The man band, rocked by MARK OWEN's admission of ten affairs, have hired MADONNA's chief sonic architect STUART PRICE to oversee their next album.

Price made his name working with Madge on her Confessions On A Dancefloor CD in his bedroom studio.

He also produced the last THE KILLERS album Day & Age, and has picked up Grammy Awards for his remixes of COLDPLAY's Talk and NO DOUBT's In My Life.

GARY BARLOW, Mark, HOWARD DONALD and JASON ORANGE are busy working with British maestro Stuart to sculpt a brand new sound.

They want him to steer their music in more of a disco and dance direction.

A source said: "It's a bold move by the lads to make the next album more interesting. They've played it safe in the past with mainstream producers. But this will take things up a notch. The plan is for Stuart to then work on the sound of their next live tour and bring the whole thing together. Howard, a successful DJ in his own right, has been championing Stuart."

Sounds like a good collaboration but it could be quite camp. Price has just finished the next SCISSOR SISTERS album.

Take That's past two albums, The Circus and Beautiful World, were produced by American rocker JOHN SHANKS.The new project - still untitled - is shaping up to be the most exciting album in Take That's 20-year career.

For a start it will be their first since 1995's Nobody Else to feature ROBBIE WILLIAMS.

Expect it to be released by the end of the year.

I bet that can't come soon enough for Mark or the huge army of Take That fans...

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