Critical Reception
Digital Spy praised the song stating it is "a big, proper, important-sounding ballad – the piano chords tremor with passion, the strings sweep impressively and every strum of the guitar seems to quiver with emotion – it offers copious proof that Gary Barlow's flair for melody is still very much intact."
The band's performance of the song during the London 2012 closing ceremonies was lauded as inspirational, in light of the loss of Barlow's stillborn daughter a week before.
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