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Williams, Robbie Albums for song lyrics and biography.Robert Peter Williams is a pop singer from Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Robbie Williams became famous in the boy band Take That, although he was fired from the group because of drug and alcohol abuse. He went solo and soon became a major celebrity in Britain. His album "I've Been Expecting You" has a popular spy theme, James Bond style. In 1999 Robbie Williams worked with singer Tom Jones for a track on the album Reload.
Robbie Williams had a minor hit in the United States with the song Rock DJ, but has never achieved the same level of fame and success there as he did in Britain. The video for the song featured Williams in a roller disco as he stripped nude and then proceeded to 'strip off' his own flesh, muscle tissue and organs until he was a dancing skeleton. It is said that the frontal nudity was edited out in the US while the gore was left in, whereas the opposite was true for the UK. The video's ending was cut by many TV stations around the world and the whole video was forbidden in some countries. VH1 Europe even made their own video out of recording studio footage. Williams has built quite a reputation for appearing nude in photographs, videos and live performances.
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After a smash third album with "Sing When You're Winning", Williams' global success was cemented after a duet cover version of the Frank and Nancy Sinatra song "Somethin' Stupid" with Nicole Kidman, who was fresh off of her Oscar-nominated performance in Moulin Rouge. Robbie then released an album of classics called Swing When You're Winning in which his image was tamed down and polished as he breezed through jazz, blues and pop standards from the fifties and sixties including "Ain't That A Kick In The Head" and "Mack The Knife". Williams' cover of the Bobby Darin classic "Beyond the Sea" from the album was later included on the Finding Nemo soundtrack.
In 2002 Williams stopped working with his writing partner and lyricsist Guy Chambers. However, they reunited six months later to work on the next album, Escapology. The first single, "Feel," was a massive European hit, accompanied by a stylish black and white video featuring Darryl Hannah. The video for the next "Escapology" single, "Come Undone," was heavily censored by MTV Networks Europe for depicting Williams having three-way sex with two women. The video also showed unsettling images of insects and reptiles. During such furores at this time, it was confirmed that Williams and Guy Chambers were to officially part ways.
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In 2002, the UK public voted Williams to be on the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons. A best-selling official biography written by Chris Heath "Feel", was published in 2004. "Feel" chronicled events that led up to to the "Live Summer Tour 2003", during which Williams performed live to more than a million people over three days in August at Knebworth Park in Hertfordshire. Another 3.5 million more watched live on television and on the Internet. Leading up to Knebworth, Williams toured Australia and New Zealand with Duran Duran.
Williams's new lyricsist and songwriting partner Stephen Duffy has penned several new songs, including the UK #1 hit "Radio". The song appeared on Robbie Williams' "Greatest Hits" album. In February 2005, Williams received the British music industry's award for the best song of the past quarter century, "Angels," the song Williams credits with giving him a career.
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Williams is currently single and now lives in Los Angeles, California. Speculation about his ambiguous sexuality and romantic life is rampant in the British media. Williams seems to encourage an image as a smooth womanizer and there are numerous widely-circulated Internet accounts allegedly written by Williams's female sexual partners, extolling his considerable prowess as a lover. A regular feature of his live performances is full-on french kisses with female fans plucked from the audience. Bearing in mind the persistent rumours about his sexuality and the appearance of so many column inches devoted to Williams's real or imagined romantic conquests, whether gay or straight, it is interesting to note that these accounts typically coincide with the release of a latest album, single, or live performance.
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