Robbie Williams

Profession: Singer
Place/Date of Birth: 13 February 2021
Associated with: Take That

I wanna be Mr Nobody! - 18/08/03
Spare a thought for Mr Williams; he doesn’t want to be famous anymore.

What do you do when you are a mega famous singer that can do no wrong? He has tried pulling faces, looking grumpy, dallied around with many Miss Wrongs, confessed to alcohol and drug addictions - and still we all love him. But boy oh boy is he getting fed up with his constant fame.

Robbie spoke to The Sun, and told them ’I can’t leave the house without being hassled, without people coming up to me bothering me all the time. I am seriously thinking about giving it all up, about not putting out any more records. I’m loaded, I can buy anything I want and everyone thinks I must have such a brilliant life but it’s actually horrible.’

See, even the revelation that he wants to be Mr Nobody makes me like him!

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Robbie’s ’fight off fan-cy’ - 28/07/03
Robbie Williams pulled a girl on-stage and got more than he bargained for in Amsterdam.

A usual trick of a male singer is pulling a beauty from the crowd to serenade, and Robbie thought his luck was in when he spied a good looking female fan. But when he pulled her up onto the stage, she went wild to be near her idol, regardless of the fact there were 60,000 people in the audience! Robbie said ’she puts her hands down my pants, her tongue down my mouth and she was trying to rip my vest off!’ She continued trying the writhe on top of him; an experience made all the less palatable be the fact that the lassie seemed to have an aversion to washing!

Poor Robbie had to resort to tugging her hair in order to fight her off!

Robbie’s charity spectacular - 22/07/03
Robbie Williams is to return to the Royal Albert Hall to headline a show for The Prince Of Wales’s charity that will also feature Elton John and Victoria Beckham.

Liz Hurley will host the event, called Fashion Rocks, on October 15 when 18 of the world’s leading fashion houses will work with leading celebrities.

The idea is to fuse catwalk and concert and Robbie will be strutting his stuff for the designers as well as performing.

Hot air - 20/05/03
Robbie williams is planning a duet with 99 Red Balloons’ singer Nena...

Nena told Bild newspaper that Robbie approached her during the Echo awards ceremony in Berlin. "He wants to sing 99 Red Balloons with me. I’m looking forward to it like crazy," she told the paper.

The two are planning to premiere their duet in July at the Schalke Arena football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, where Robbie will be performing on July 13.

Roaring Robbie - 13/05/03 Courtesy of Heat Magazine
Robbie Williams will play a lion in a BBC film called Pride...

He’ll be lending his voice to Linus who starts out as a wimp but builds up courage.

Kate Winslet will take the role of his sister Suki.

Robbie begs - 12/05/03
It seems Robbie does care about breaking into America and has resorted to begging Americans to buy his album Escapology.

’Even if you don’t like it, can you ask for it?’ he implored the crowd at the free Tribeca film festival in New York.

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Biography

Robbie Peter Williams was born on February 13th 1974 and spent his childhood years living in Stoke-on-Trent with his mum and older sister Sally. He was always the class joker at St Margaret Ward High School in Stoke and had a particular gift for singing and acting. He joined a local theatre group as a youngster and was often seen starring in various musicals and plays - his biggest part was playing ’Dodger’ in Oliver.

Robbie joined Take That when he was only 16, he had only one job previous to that, as a double glazing salesman, but apparently he wasn’t very good - he would tell customers not to buy them because they were so bad! For five years, Robbie became the joker of the band, always smiling and playing gags on people as Take That rose to record-breaking stardom. However, in July 1995 Robbie announced he was to leave the band to concentrate on a solo career...a nation of teenage girls mourned.

After a stint eating pies, doing drugs and being friends with the Gallaghers, Robbie signed to Chrysalis Records. His first ever solo single on this label would be a cover of George Michael’s Freedom . It was released on July 29th 1996 exactly one year after his departure from Take That. It reached No 2 in the UK charts. Life began to get a bit rough for Robbie during the following months, he met Jacquie Hamilton-Smith at a New Years Eve Party of 1996, moved in with her the next day and partied (in more ways that one) for exactly one year before coming to his senses. In the middle of all this he released his second single Old Before I Die on April 14th 1997 which also reached No 2 in the charts.

At the beginning of June 1997 after many bad reports in the media, Robbie checked himself into a rehab centre to receive treatment for his addiction to alcohol and drugs. After 4 weeks at the centre Rob emerged 2 stones lighter, sporting a new haircut, and hopefully feeling much better. The release of Lazy Days followed soon after on July 14th, and made it’s first appearance in the UK charts at No 8, to be followed shortly by South Of The Border.

December 1997 was the real beginning for Robbie, he released ’Angels’ as his Christmas single, never knowing quite what an impact it would have on the market. Into the new year of 1998 it was still in the charts and ’Life Thru A Lens’ shot back into the album charts and has been there ever since. Robbie truly had arrived, signing up thousands of new fans daily. Millennium and accompanying album I’ve Been Expecting You followed up on this success, making Robbie the biggest selling artist of 1998.

He began trying to win over the US in 1999 touring The Ego Has Landed. His success continued in 2000 with the release of immediate hit, Rock DJ. Sing When You’re Winning, was as popular as his accompanying collection of lounge covers, Swing When You’re winning. In 2002, Robbie signed a record breaking contract with EMI for £50m, securing his place in pop history. Escapology duly topped the charts in the UK while Robbie spent time in LA being papped with new girlfriend Rachel Hunter.

The biggest outdoor concert ever was hosted by Robbie in 2003 at Knebworth Park attracting 375,000 fans over three days. He followed up this success with two album releases, a Greatest Hits and 2005’s Intensive Care which accompanied his appearance on stage at Live8. Around this time speculation was rife that Robbie was ready to patch things up with his former bandmates and take part in a Take That reunion tour. However Robbie disappointed fans and friends by failing to turn up at an ITV organised reunion and merely recording a video part for the tour which Gary and co embarked on a UK tour without him.

But Robbie wasn’t resting on his laurels. While Take That returned to the studio Robbie did the same, releasing his tenth album, Rudebox in 2006 which brought more controversy to the singer when he failed to credit a supposed co-writer.

It never seems to stop for Robbie.
updated Oct 2006
November 2007