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They’ve mentioned the songwriting on a few documentaries/interviews.I won’t pretend I understand much about music publishing deals, but I think it’s to do with who handles your intellectual property and royalties etc. I don’t particularly think Howard has any desire to be a solo artist. The publishing deal is more likely to be about his Take That song writing credits
In the old days Gary wrote and took majority of song writing credits with the odd one here and there to the other members, which disappointed the band and put extreme pressure on Gary.
When they reformed they now write all new material as a group and all 3 of them are named as equal contributors to the song writing.